This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …

We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit … from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in … results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for …

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 …

relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

What causes alcohol abuse and domestic violence and how can we stop them? These behaviors have multiple determinants … in wife's and husband's income on husband alcohol abuse and alcohol-induced violence using new data from rural Mexico. A … out transfers from the husband only for 5% of the wives whose income increases. Alcohol abuse and violence are insensitive …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners … employed - supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence only for women who live in what they …

We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit … relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner violence. We document that men indistricts facing larger tariff … the laborforce. These changes in employment patterns triggered backlash effects by increasing intimate partner violence …

make investments to overcome fear in the presence of economic incentives, I find that the effect of local violence on labor …