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 …

marginal cost of violence always reduces violence, while increasing the indiscriminate fixed cost may backfire and result in …

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 … experienced domestic violence are more likely to suffer violence themselves …

exposure to violence substantially increases present bias – choice of the smaller, immediate reward over the larger, later … mitigates the differences in behavior between those who were exposed to violence and those who were not. Our findings suggest … patient choices and mitigate the elevated impulsivity of individuals that have experienced violence. We measure our treatment …

emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link … planting season’, i.e. December, determines an increase in violence fueled by the reduction in future rice production per …

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 …

This paper isolates the causal effect of policing on group violence, using unique panel data on self-reported crime by … soccer and ice hockey hooligans. The problem of reverse causality from violence to policing is solved by two drastic … violence increased dramatically during these periods …