Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …

implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various … incidence of domestic violence. Instead, specific measures and incentives may have to be targeted at different types of …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil. We … merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data on domestic violence cases brought to criminal … courts, use of public shelters by victims and mandatory notifications of domestic violence by health providers. Leveraging …

This paper provides the first causal evidence that hostile activities online lead to physical violence. Given the …

behavioral differences from males and likely different exposure to gun-related violence. Method: Using data from 1991-2020, we …

violence in the home country trade immediate job security for lower earnings and less-productive firms. …