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We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil. We … merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data on domestic violence cases brought to criminal … courts, use of public shelters by victims and mandatory notifications of domestic violence by health providers. Leveraging …
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Child maltreatment is pervasive, often undetected, yet harmful. We investigate whether it is impacted by unemployment by leveraging unique administrative data including all reported cases of child abuse and neglect in the United States from 2004 to 2012. Using an industry shift-share instrument...
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We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil …. We merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data on domestic violence cases brought to … criminal courts, use of public shelters by victims and mandatory notifications of domestic violence by health providers …
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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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