Anita Mukherjee talks about how heat affects violent behavior in prisons.
“The Causal Effect of Heat on Violence: Social Implications of Unmitigated Heat Among the Incarcerated” by Anita Mukherjee and Nicholas J. Sanders.
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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:“Interpersonal Violence Associated with Hot Weather” by Rahini Mahendran, Rongbin Xu, Shanshan Li, and Yuming Guo.
“Heat and Violence" by Craig A. Anderson.
“Temper, Temperature, and Temptation: Heat-related Retaliation in Baseball” by Richard P. Larrick, Thomas A. Timmerman, Andrew M. Carton, and Jason Abrevaya.
“The Urban Crime and Heat Gradient in High and Low Poverty Areas” by Kilian Heilmann, Matthew E. Kahn, and Cheng Keat Tang.
“Access to Guns in the Heat of the Moment: The Effect of Gun Laws on Violent Crime” by Jonathan Colmer and Jennifer L. Doleac. [Working paper.]
“Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making Under Thermal Stress” by Ingvild Almas et al. [Working paper.]
“Keep the Kids Inside? Juvenile Curfews and Urban Gun Violence” by Jillian B. Carr and Jennifer L. Doleac.
“Heat, Crime, and Punishment” by A. Patrick Behrer and Valentin Bolotnyy.
Episode 96: Andreas Kotsadam on jobs and intimate partner violence
Episode 95: Marcella Alsan on fear and the social safety net
Episode 94: Jesse Bruhn on the effects of gangs in Chicago
Episode 93: Justin Holz on peer effects in police use of force
Episode 92: Laura Khoury on the mental health effects of prison in Norway
Bonus episode: Joanna Schwartz on accountability for police misconduct
Episode 91: Allison Harris on registering returning citizens to vote
Episode 90: Matthew Ross on police field training
Episode 89: Graeme Blair on community policing in the Global South
Episode 88: Sara Heller and Max Kapustin on reducing gun violence
Episode 87: Emily Nix on violence against women at work
Episode 7: Jeff Weaver on the effects of parental and sibling incarceration (REBROADCAST)
Episode 3: Analisa Packham on syringe exchange programs (REBROADCAST)
Episode 86: Elizabeth Luh on financial penalties
Episode 85: Sofia Amaral on reducing street harassment in India
Episode 84: Alex Albright on bail reform
Episode 83: Kevin Wilson on DC’s 911 nurse triage line
Episode 82: Kirabo Jackson on the multiple dimensions of school quality
Episode 80: Thomas Dee on sending health workers to 911 calls
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