In this article I first describe the basic principles that parents employ in disciplining their children. The … the occurrence of harm and also reflects the well-being of their children … principles of criminal law and those applied by parents in disciplining their children …

' encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other … that the economic circumstances of parents matter: increases in the fractions of children with absent fathers and working … structure, welfare benefits, and child maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men to work and to live …

aimed" at children. Data on violence come from the 1976 Physical Violence in American Families survey. " We estimate a … associated with excessive drinking. Largely ignored in the literature is the link" between alcohol use and domestic violence …. Given the established positive relationship between" alcohol consumption and acts of violence, the purpose of this paper is …

annual cost of over $4.25 billion. Since infant health is a strong predictor of life-long well-being and women of lower … socioeconomic status are more likely to be victims of domestic abuse, violence in utero is an important potential channel for …

It is estimated that between ten and twenty percent of children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence … annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home … exploiting a unique data set in which children's school records are matched to domestic violence cases filed by their parent. To …

Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and … consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with … selection into violent relationships, I find that violence against pregnant women negatively affects the health of their …

We find that maltreatment approximately doubles the probability of engaging in many types of crime. Low SES children …

We use data on all middle and high school-aged children who survived a mass shooting incident on July 22, 2011 in Utoya …-in-differences design to compare survivors to a matched control group, we find that in the short run children who survive have substantially …

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative …

In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence … violence appears to lead to a heavy-tailed error distribution. Our empirical results suggest that increases in the assailants …(i.e. the male's) income serve to increase violence, while increases in the proportion of the year that he is employed serve to …