How Evidence Is Strengthening Domestic-Violence Courts in Puerto Rico
Faculty of Arts & Science spotlight on Paola Salardi, featuring new research with Carolina Arteaga, Gustavo Bobonis, and Dario Toman through FOS’s Judicial Innovation Initiative.
In a new working paper for the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, Salardi and her co-authors Carolina Arteaga, Gustavo Bobonis, and Dario Toman, use a dense dataset of civil domestic-violence case records in Puerto Rico from 2014–2020 to evaluate SDVC’s effectiveness in protecting victims and reducing recidivism. Bobonis is a full professor in U of T’s Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts & Science, and co-director of the Forward Society Lab, which supported this project through its robust network of research partnerships.