We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in … heterogeneous effects whereby women with low bargaining power at baseline experience increased risks of abuse if offered a job. …

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 …

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 …

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 … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands' mothers …

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961 … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous …

negative impact of the protests on life satisfaction is observed among women, members of working class, and those with primary …

In most countries, men are the principal asylum applicants, while women are admitted through family …-reunification procedures. Family reunification implies that women's residence permits are contingent on remaining married to their husbands …. Using a staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID) Design, I document that granting asylum to family-reunified women improves …

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and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … on the United States and find that in regions that were more exposed to robots, gender gaps in income and labor force …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …