Table 5.

Impact of No-Drop Policies on Intimate Homicides, 49 Cities

	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Non-Intimate Homicides
No-drop policy	−0.265 [0.137]	−0.123 [0.116]	−0.256 [0.134]	−0.127 [0.107]	−0.23 [0.138]	−0.116 [0.095]	−0.059 [0.068]	−0.042 [0.065]
Adult non-intimate homicides per 10000	0.105 [0.116]	0.088 [0.081]	0.102 [0.115]	0.085 [0.079]	0.099 [0.143]	0.088 [0.099]
Share population black	0.03 [0.061]	−0.004 [0.077]	0.034 [0.062]	−0.003 [0.072]	−0.103 [0.080]	−0.018 [0.127]	−0.157 [0.082]	−0.112 [0.105]
Average wage			0.022 [0.064]	−0.004 [0.048]	0.007 [0.078]	−0.026 [0.038]	−0.01 [0.031]	0.02 [0.043]
Employment to population ratio			0.423 [0.694]	0.212 [0.500]	0.096 [0.848]	0.2 [0.594]	0.842 [0.309]	0.749 [0.363]
AFDC benefits			0.001 [0.001]	0.001 [0.001]	0.001 [0.001]	0.001 [0.001]	0 [0.001]	0 [0.000]
DV hotlines per 100,000 women					−0.852 [0.300]	−0.203 [0.232]	−0.313 [0.159]	−0.254 [0.181]
DV shelter beds per 100,000 women					0.007 [0.009]	0.005 [0.007]	−0.002 [0.004]	−0.001 [0.005]
City and year fixed effects	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
City-specific linear time trends	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Share black and non-intimate partner homicide	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
County wages, employment to popuation ratio and AFDC benefits			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Domestic violence services (hotlines and shelter beds)			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Lag dependent variable					Y	Y		Y
Observations	1027	1027	1027	1027	978	978	1027	978
Robust standard errors (clustered on city) in brackets
Mean of dependent variable	6.71	10.1	6.71	10.1	6.71	10.1	181	181
Size of effect	−23%	−12%	−23%	−12%	−21%	−11%	−6%	−4%