Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest laws

Radha Iyengar

NBER Working Paper No. 13186
Issued in June 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

I am grateful to Hank Farber, David Autor, Jesse Rothstein, Francine Blau, Faruk Gul, Lawrence Katz and participants at the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section labor lunch and Law and Public Affairs seminar for numerous comments and insightful suggestions. Financial support from Princeton University Industrial Relations Section, the Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. Any remaining errors are entirely my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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