Although women's police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have … most severe form of domestic violence. Given that a high fraction of female deaths among women ages 15 to 49 years can be …

models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman's risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a … dataset collected in peri-urban Dhaka, this analysis documents a positive correlation between work and domestic violence. This … with a theoretical model in which a woman with low bargaining power can face increased risk of domestic violence upon …