Crime | Gerard Torrats-Espinosa

Crime

The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban Neighborhoods

Demography, 2025 (with Patrick Sharkey)

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Exposure to Crime and Racial Birth Outcome Disparities

Journal of Urban Health, 2024 (with Nicholas Mark)

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Understanding Why EmpaTeach Did Not Reduce Teachers’ Use of Violence in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp: A Quantitative Process Evaluation of a School-Based Violence Prevention Intervention

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 (with Camilla Fabbri, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Katherine Rodrigues, Alexandra De Filippo, Michael Kaemingk, Baptiste Leurent, Elizabeth Shayo, Vivien Barongo, Karen M. Devries)

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Declining Violence and Improving Birth Outcomes in the US: Evidence from Birth Certificate Data

Social Science and Medicine, 2022 (with Nicholas Mark)

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The EmpaTeach Intervention for Reducing Physical Violence from Teachers to Students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial

PLoS Medicine, 2021 (with Camilla Fabbri, Katherine Rodrigues, Baptiste Leurent, Elizabeth Allen, Mary Qiu, Martin Zuakulu, Dennis Nombo, Michael Kaemingk, Alexandra De Filippo, Elizabeth Shayo, Vivien Barongo, Giulia Greco, Wietse Tol, and Karen M. Devries)

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Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States

Demography, 2020

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Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Electoral Consequences of Terrorist Attacks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 (with Laia Balcells)

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Violence and Vigilance: The Acute Effects of Community Violent Crime on Sleep and Cortisol

Child Development, 2018 (with Jennifer Heissel, Patrick Sharkey, Kathryn Grant, and Emma Adam)

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Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime

American Sociological Review, 2017 (with Patrick Sharkey and Delaram Takyar)

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The Effect of Violent Crime on Economic Mobility

Journal of Urban Economics, 2017 (with Patrick Sharkey)

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