Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and … consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with … a household bargaining model. The relationship between the wage gap and violence suggests that reductions in violence …

Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the … based on newspaper reports. We find significant differences in the patterns of violence in the eastern and western parts of …