This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims … mutual consent, led to a decrease in help-seeking behavior among intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors and an increase in … leave abusive relationships, the requirement for mutual consent may inadvertently escalate violence as husbands seek to …

partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …

partner violence. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment based on a series of reforms in Spain that shifted the custody … decision from being unilaterally determined by the mother to a joint decision, barring evidence of violence. We find that the …. Comparing the evolution of intimate partner violence in treated and control regions and using couples without children as an …

analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of … as a function of the sex ratio at birth and marriage quality measures, including self-reported domestic violence, are …

women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women … ( including female suicides) fell. This fall is due to changes in police-reported violence as well as in female mortality. The law … spouses eligible for inheritance are 17 percent less likely to be victims of domestic violence. These findings are explained …

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce …, for the United States, to investigate the relation between fertility and marriage instability. In our model of marriage … children conceived during first marriage. Our results indicate that the presence of children significantly reduces the …

Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to a model in which a couple decides whether to marry or cohabit … among the decisions on marriage, fertility and divorce. …