The economics of policing and public safety

E Owens, B Ba - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021 - aeaweb.org
The efficiency of any police action depends on the relative magnitude of its crime-reducing
benefits and legitimacy costs. Policing strategies that are socially efficient at the city level …

Changing patterns of domestic abuse during Covid-19 lockdown

R Ivandic, T Kirchmaier, B Linton - 2020 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
The effects of preventing a COVID-19 health crisis have had unintended consequences on
domestic abuse (DA) victimization. We contribute to the literature on domestic abuse in …

Domestic violence reports and the mental health and well-being of victims and their children

M Bhuller, GB Dahl, KV Løken… - Journal of human …, 2024 - jhr.uwpress.org
We study the costs associated with domestic violence (DV) in Norway by comparing
outcomes before and after a DV report, using those who will be victimized in the future as …

Surviving a mass shooting

P Bharadwaj, M Bhuller, KV Løken… - Journal of Public …, 2021 - Elsevier
We use data on all middle and high school aged children who survived a mass shooting
incident on July 22, 2011 in Utøya, Norway, to understand how such events affect survivors …

Scaring or scarring? Labor market effects of criminal victimization

A Bindler, N Ketel - Journal of Labor Economics, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Little is known about the costs of crime to victims. We use unique and detailed register data
on victimizations and monthly labor market outcomes from the Netherlands and estimate …

[PDF][PDF] Crime and education

S Machin, M Sandi - Annual Review of Economics, 2024 - cep.lse.ac.uk
Research studying connections between crime and education is a prominent aspect of the
big increase of publication and research interest in the economics of crime field. This work …

[HTML][HTML] Football, alcohol, and domestic abuse

R Ivandić, T Kirchmaier, Y Saeidi, NT Blas - Journal of Public Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
We study the role of alcohol and emotions in explaining the dynamics in domestic abuse
following major football games. We match confidential and uniquely detailed individual call …

Sexual harassment in public spaces and police patrols: Experimental evidence from urban india

S Amaral, G Borker, N Fiala, A Kumar, N Prakash… - 2023 - nber.org
We conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an innovative police
patrol program on sexual harassment in public spaces in Hyderabad, India. In collaboration …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of common psychiatric disorders, suicidal behaviours, and premature mortality following violent victimisation: A matched cohort and sibling-comparison …

A Sariaslan, J Pitkänen, J Forsman… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Associations between violent victimisation and psychiatric disorders are
hypothesised to be bidirectional, but the role of violent victimisation in the aetiologies of …

Domestic violence and the mental health and well-being of victims and their children

M Bhuller, GB Dahl, KV Løken, M Mogstad - 2022 - nber.org
Almost one third of women worldwide report some form of physical or sexual violence by a
partner in their lifetime, yet little is known about the mental health and well-being effects for …