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DESCRIPTION:Florencia Torche\, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Sociology an
 d International Affairs at Princeton University will present\,&nbsp\;“Bias
 -Motivated Violence and Infant Health\,"&nbsp\;as part of the CPR Seminar 
 Series.&nbsp\;Abstract:&nbsp\;Hate crimes are not only acts of interperson
 al violence but also symbolic threats that signal group-based exclusion. W
 hile research documents psychological consequences among direct victims\, 
 an open question is whether hate crimes operate as vicarious\, identity-ba
 sed threats that shape health even before birth. This study examines wheth
 er prenatal exposure to local hate crimes affects birth outcomes.We link o
 ver 650\,000 birth records in Los Angeles County (2014–2020) to a novel da
 tabase of hate crimes and estimate effects of ZIP code–level exposure—the 
 most granular community definition to date—using fixed-effects models. Hat
 e crime exposure increases preterm birth risk\, with the strongest effects
  for incidents targeting the mother’s own racial/ethnic group. Among Black
  and Asian populations\, race-specific hate crimes elevate preterm birth r
 isk\, while incidents targeting other groups do not\, underscoring identit
 y-based vicarious threat. Counterfactual decomposition analysis shows that
  Black infants are both disproportionately exposed to anti-Black hate crim
 es and especially vulnerable to their effects\, compounding infant health 
 disparities.Bounds analyses addressing limitations of causal inference wit
 h aggregate treatments indicate large treatment-on-the-treated effects amo
 ng mothers plausibly aware of the local hate crime incidents. The findings
  show that hate crimes are not merely episodic acts of violence against in
 dividuals but mechanisms of group stratification that shape intergeneratio
 nal inequality.
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SUMMARY:Bias-Motivated Violence and Infant Health
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Florencia Torche\, Edwards S. Sanford Profe
 ssor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University will p
 resent\,&nbsp\;“Bias-Motivated Violence and Infant Health\,"&nbsp\;as part
  of the CPR Seminar Series.&nbsp\;</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong>:&nbsp\;
 </p><p><span style="background-color: initial\; font-family: inherit\; fon
 t-size: inherit\; text-align: inherit\; text-transform: inherit\; word-spa
 cing: normal\; caret-color: auto\; white-space: inherit">Hate crimes are n
 ot only acts of interpersonal violence but also symbolic threats that sign
 al group-based exclusion. While research documents psychological consequen
 ces among direct victims\, an open question is whether hate crimes operate
  as vicarious\, identity-based threats that shape health even before birth
 . This study examines whether prenatal exposure to local hate crimes affec
 ts birth outcomes.</span></p><div><p>We link over 650\,000 birth records i
 n Los Angeles County (2014–2020) to a novel database of hate crimes and es
 timate effects of ZIP code–level exposure—the most granular community defi
 nition to date—using fixed-effects models. Hate crime exposure increases p
 reterm birth risk\, with the strongest effects for incidents targeting the
  mother’s own racial/ethnic group. Among Black and Asian populations\, rac
 e-specific hate crimes elevate preterm birth risk\, while incidents target
 ing other groups do not\, underscoring identity-based vicarious threat. Co
 unterfactual decomposition analysis shows that Black infants are both disp
 roportionately exposed to anti-Black hate crimes and especially vulnerable
  to their effects\, compounding infant health disparities.</p></div><div>B
 ounds analyses addressing limitations of causal inference with aggregate t
 reatments indicate large treatment-on-the-treated effects among mothers pl
 ausibly aware of the local hate crime incidents. The findings show that ha
 te crimes are not merely episodic acts of violence against individuals but
  mechanisms of group stratification that shape intergenerational inequalit
 y.</div><div><br></div>
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