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groups by exploring a dataset on temperature and violence in Russia, between the years 1989 and 2015. Hot days lead to an …
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Recent years have seen a rise in mass shooting incidents in the United States. While direct victims and their families undoubtedly suffer the most serious consequence of mass shootings, little is known on whether mass shootings have negative impacts beyond those immediately exposed to the...
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dramatic rise in crime driven by elite violence which erupted shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The … violence - initially confined to the criminal underworld - eventually spilled over, leading to indiscriminate attacks against … was no increase in politically-motivated violence, suggesting a widespread collusion between the mafia and local …
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In this paper we analyze the factors that explain attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in …
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We develop a scale of severity of violence against women based on fuzzy set theory. The scale can be used to derive … fuzzy indexes of violence which account for the prevalence, frequency and severity of violence. Using the results of the … scale and three widely used alternatives - the Conflict Tactic Scale, The Severity of Violence Against Women Scale and the …
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against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse's education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood … experienced domestic violence are more likely to suffer violence themselves. …
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Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between-cohort variation in the age composition of different...
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In this paper, we empirically estimate the causal impact of maternal domestic violence on the nutritional status of her …, we find robust evidence that violence experienced by mothers at the hands of her husband significantly increases the … likelihood of her children being malnourished. When we focus on identifying the pathways through which domestic violence affect …
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Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on numerous education, health and socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from this research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the...
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We study the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique … may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find no evidence that changes in work arrangements are related to self …-reported levels of family stress and violence in the home due to confinement, suggesting that remote work on a large scale does not …
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