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We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … appears to reflect reporting rather than incidence as we find no changes in femicide or in survey-reported domestic violence …
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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 …
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violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961 … in former British territories are 30% more likely to be victims of domestic violence than those in former French … former French areas. These results are incompatible with household bargaining models that incorporate domestic violence but …
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We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in …
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their economic integration, increases the probability of divorce and decreases their risk of being victims of violence. I …
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that...
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Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the birth rate halved in East Germany. Despite their small sizes, the cohorts conceived during this period of socio-economic turmoil were, as they grew up in reunified Germany, markedly more likely to be arrested than cohorts conceived a few years...
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In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...
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The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...
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