violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment. This finding persists when I exploit the husband's own … suggestive evidence that a woman's decision-making power—measured by active input in household and healthcare decisions—as well … childhood experience of abuse as a source of plausibly exogenous variation for the incidence of domestic violence. To explore …

In this paper we analyse the impact of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia and find that higher conflict … intensity increases the likelihood of women to become a victim of domestic violence. The idea behind this is that the experience … domestic violence. Taking advantage of the uneven spatial distribution of the conflict we assess its impact, using micro data …

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 …

While many commentators perceive unemployment to be a key risk factor for intimate partner violence, the empirical … estimate the effects of total and gender-specific unemployment rates on domestic violence. The analysis uses the substantial … area and age group. Our results suggest that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic violence …

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 …

against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse's education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood … that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable …