This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We … argue that an increase in crime against women, increases the non-pecuniary costs of traveling to work, particularly in a …

committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives …, measured in terms of earnings and probability of arrest. We observe that women obtain on average 32% less criminal earnings and …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

There exists remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the … if the weight gap between black and white women is to decline. -- obesity ; decomposition …

transit country workers and has greater effects on women than men. …