Probable Causation
Probable Causation

Probable Causation

Jennifer Doleac

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A show about law, economics, and crime.

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Episode 122: Vijetha Koppa on Lethality Assessment Programs
DEC 16, 2025
Episode 122: Vijetha Koppa on Lethality Assessment Programs
Vijetha Koppa talks about Lethality Assessment Programs used by police in domestic violence incidents. OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE: "Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest Laws" by Radha Iyengar. "Revisiting the Effect of Warrantless Domestic Violence Arrest Laws on Intimate Partner Homicides" by Yoo Mi Chin and Scott Cunningham. "Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence" by Sofia Amaral, Gordon B. Dahl, Victoria Endl-Geyer, Timo Hener, and Helmut Rainer. "Improving Batterer Intervention Programs Through Theory-Based Research" by Gregory L. Stuart, Jeff R. Temple, and Todd M. Moore. "Batterer Intervention Programs: A Report From the Field" by Bethany J. Price and Alan Rosenbaum. “The next Generation of Court-Mandated Domestic Violence Treatment: A Comparison Study of Batterer Intervention and Restorative Justice Programs" by Linda G. Mills, Briana Barocas, and Barak Ariel. "The Oklahoma Lethality Assessment Study: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of the Lethality Assessment Program" by Jill T. Messing, Jacquelyn Campbell, Daniel W. Webster, Sheryll Brown, Beverly Patchell, and Janet Sullivan Wilson. "Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse" by Dan A. Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier, and Koen Sanders. "Policing in Patriarchy: An Experimental Evaluation of Reforms to Improve Police Responsiveness to Women in India" by Sandip Sukhtankar, Gabriele Kruks-Wisner, and Akshay Mangla. "Gender, Crime and Punishment: Evidence from Women Police Stations in India" by Sofia Amaral, Sonia R. Bhalotra, and Nishith Prakash. "Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital: Evidence from Women’s Justice Centers in Peru" by Sviatschi, Maria Micaela, and Iva Trako. "Female Political Representation and Violence Against Women: Evidence from Brazil" by Magdalena Delaporte and Francisco Pino.
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62 MIN
Episode 119: Elin Colmsjö on how health shocks affect criminal behavior
AUG 26, 2025
Episode 119: Elin Colmsjö on how health shocks affect criminal behavior
Elin Colmsjö talks about how health shocks affect criminal behavior. “Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime” by Steffen Andersen, Elin Colmsjö, Gianpaolo Parise, and Kim Peijnenburg.  OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE: “Participation in illegitimate activities: A theoretical and empirical investigation" by Isaac Ehrlich. “Long-term and spillover effects of health shocks on employment and income” by Pilar García-Gómez, Hans Van Kippersluis, Owen O’Donnell, and Eddy Van Doorslaer. “The economic consequences of hospital admissions" by Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo. “Family health behaviors" by Itzik Fadlon and Torben Heien Nielsen. “Family labor supply responses to severe health shocks: Evidence from Danish administrative records" by Itzik Fadlon and Torben Heien Nielsen. “Child’s gender, young fathers’ crime, and spillover effects in criminal behavior" and Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø. “Life shocks and crime: A test of the 'turning point' hypothesis” by Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy E Reichman, and Ofira Schwartz-Soicher. "Does Welfare Prevent Crime? the Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed from SSI" by Manasi Deshpande and Michael Mueller-Smith. Probable Causation Episode 72: Manasi Deshpande. "Mental Health and Criminal Involvement: Evidence from Losing Medicaid Eligibility" by Elisa Jácome. Probable Causation Episode 60: Elisa Jácome. "The Effect of Medicaid on Crime: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment" by Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Miller, and Katherine Baicker.
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50 MIN