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 …

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also … document a sharp drop in violent crimes, indicating a tight link between alcohol and aggressive behaviour in society. Our …

and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … participation declined, reducing the relative economic stature of men. Regions affected by intense robot penetration experienced … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior. …

implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence … households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in …

Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent …, male wage inequality should be associated with higher husband quality among those "early-mover"women who choose to forgo …-2018 that married women ages 22-30 in marriage markets with greater male wage inequality are more likely to marry up in …

We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in … that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse’s education, this gain amounting to about half a …