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Extreme temperature and extreme violence across age and gender : evidence from Russia

Popova, Olga; Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Tavares, José - 2019

groups by exploring a dataset on temperature and violence in Russia, between the years 1989 and 2015. Hot days lead to an …

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Attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women in Latin America

Bucheli, Marisa; Rossi, Máximo - 2017

In this paper we analyze the factors that explain attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in …

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Women, violence and work : threat of sexual violence and women's decision to work

Chakraborty, Tanika; Lohawala, Nafisa - 2022

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...

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Don't cross the line : bounding the causal effect of hypergamy violation on domestic violence in India

Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dhamija, Gaurav - 2022

that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of … hypergamy violation on domestic violence, however, is challenging due to unmeasured confounding and reverse causality. To … evidence that violation of hypergamy leads to a significant increase in domestic violence. Further, we provide suggestive …

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Gendered language and gendered violence

Davis, Lewis S.; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Weber, Clas - 2022

This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a … statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross … that speaking a gendered language is associated with the belief that intimate partner violence is justifiable. Our results …

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Stigma of sexual violence and womens decision to work

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Rachapalli, … - 2017

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR...

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British colonialism and women empowerment in India

Nandwani, Bharti; Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2023

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women's contemporary economic outcomes across areas that were under direct British colonial rule with areas that were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation...

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