The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed effects strategy …-level regulations in alcohol sale and consumption and provide estimates from two different strategies - an instrumental variable …

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 …

In this paper, we study the effect of household shocks on the incidence of domestic violence using household survey …. We find that droughts lead to a considerable increase of domestic violence in the households. A one standard deviation …

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional … of at-home violence by men against their wives and girlfriends. In contrast, losses when the game was expected to be … football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a …

assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply … when we control for wage offers and family formation decisions, as well as when we control for the emigration rate from the …

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country … stronger effect of father's than mother's education. Second-generation women's schooling levels are negatively affected by …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show …

men and women live for many years and they differ in their fecundity, in their earnings, and in their survival … account for the age distributions of ever and never married men and women, for the probabilities of marrying a younger bride … previous literature on this topic claims that marriage is a waiting game in which women are choosier than men, and old and rich …