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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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micro-level simulation model, which combines a multisectoral closed economy with an epidemic transmission model. In … pandemic dynamics in Germany in the first six months after the COVID-19 outbreak. We show that a policy inducing switches … pandemic is substantially lower under these policies. Keeping the other policy parameters fixed, a variation of the consumption …
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We study the relationship between Covid-19 lockdowns and domestic assaults in New South Wales and Victoria using police … data on crime by Local Government Area over the period 2019-2020. We apply both Ordinary Least Squares and a fixed effect … result, there is a higher relative incidence of domestic assaults rather than an overall increase in crime. The results are …
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, appear incapable of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic? Using the case of maternal mortality, this paper argues that the … tremendous impact of the pandemic is rooted in the adoption of health policy reforms that prioritized targets, vertical … exercising of state power and structural violence that has created a weak health system which cannot rapidly restructure and …
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reporting and domestic violence. Along these two key dimensions, we find that female officers improved police quality. Crime … area, and especially domestic violence, are reported to the police at significantly higher rates. There are no such effects …We study the impact of the integration of women in US policing between the late 1970s and early 1990s on violent crime …
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reporting and domestic violence escalation. Along these two key dimensions, we find that female officers improved police quality … against women in that area, and especially domestic violence, are reported to the police at significantly higher rates. There …We study the impact of the integration of women in US policing between the late 1970s and early 1990s on violent crime …
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This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the … information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of … importantly, the role that marital selection and the diffusion of norms rejecting intimate partner violence may play in explaining …
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even increased), police reports of domestic violence declined. During the pandemic, call-center calls for psychological …This study considers whether domestic violence increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City. We use two … separate data sources to study this question--domestic violence call-center calls and official police reports. Using both an …
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