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 37: Jamein Cunningham on legal services for the poor
Episode 36: Ellora Derenoncourt on the Great Migration and economic mobility
Episode 35: Erich Muehlegger on air pollution and crime
Episode 34: David Phillips on emergency financial assistance
Episode 33: Jason Lindo on violent media content
Episode 32: Sarit Weisburd on police presence and crime
Episode 19: Jeremy West on racial bias in police investigations (REBROADCAST)
Episode 10: Emily Weisburst on police officers in schools (REBROADCAST)
Episode 31: Randi Hjalmarsson on jury decision-making
Episode 30: Brittany Street on economic opportunity and crime
Episode 29: Patricio Dominguez on the interactions of offenders and victims
Episode 28: Jillian Carr on SNAP benefit distribution and crime
Episode 27: Benjamin Hansen on marijuana legalization
Episode 26: Kirabo Jackson on single-sex education
Episode 25: Sara Heller on summer youth employment programs
Bonus episode: Adam Gelb on the Council on Criminal Justice
Episode 24: Logan Lee on residential housing programs
Bonus episode: Rachel Barkow
Episode 23: Lelys Dinarte on after-school programs in El Salvador
Episode 22: Phil Levine on gun exposure and accidental shootings
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