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We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when a male partner's true tendency for abusive behaviour is unobserved. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon...
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This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
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Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between property crime and violent crime at work. In the model,...
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Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …
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