Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In … of interpersonal violence, such as "crimes of passion." We ask whether economic or non-economic factors better explain … the well-established relationship between temperature and violence in a unique context where intergroup killings by drug …

Crack cocaine markets were associated with substantial increases in violence in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s …. Using cross-city variation in the emergence of these markets, we show that the resulting violence has important long … rates today compared to older cohorts. The long run effects of this increase in violence are large. We attribute nearly …

-term wellbeing and disadvantaged women are disproportionately likely to be domestic abuse victims, violence in utero may be an …

partner violence, and construct a theory to explain them. Transfers to women averaging USD 709 reduced physical and sexual … violence (-0:26, -0:22 standard deviations). Transfers to men reduced physical violence (-0:18 SD). We find spillovers …: physical violence towards non-recipient women in treatment villages decreased (-0:16 SD). We show theoretically that transfers …

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 …

Among the many unresolved questions regarding the determinants of violence is the role of prohibitions against drugs … and alcohol. Conventional wisdom holds that consumption of these goods encourages violence and that prohibitions … discourage such consumption; thus, prohibitions reduce violence. An alternative view, however, is that prohibitions create black …

violence on college campuses. The principal hypothesis tested is that the incidence of violence is negatively related to the … alcohol and violence and the negative relationship between the use of alcohol and its price. The data employed in the study … adverse consequences of its use. These adverse consequences include the following indicators of violence: getting in trouble …

Violence in and around schools has drawn increasing attention lately from both the public and policy makers. Despite … violence affects high school graduation, college attendance, and teacher pay. Using data from the High School and Beyond survey …, I find that local violence has important effects. Moderate levels of violence reduce the likelihood of high school …