associated with sharp reductions in marital violence. -- Domestic violence ; employment status ; property ownership ; India … 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 …

We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they … are elected. Exposure to female leaders in state legislatures in India increases the likelihood that female constituents … in rural areas report experiencing physical violence from their husbands. This effect can be explained by an increase in …

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 …

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … its population share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey …

Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to … circumstances. This study uses national, prospective, longitudinal data from the Journeys Home Survey to examine how violence … experiencing violence and housing insecurity in subsequent periods. The study is one of the first to investigate these …

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico …, I show that violence has a significant negative impact on plant output, product scope, employment, and capacity …

seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large … increase in NPS availability and an alarming correlation with the steep rise in harm and violence behind bars. I then evaluate … in violence, self-harm, and suicides following the law. Collectively, the findings suggest unwarranted responses to …

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 …

high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and …