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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119204
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151143
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799358
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254017
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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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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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Reaching the top or falling behind? : the role of occupational segregation in women's chances of finding a high-paying job over the life-cycle
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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Are women breaking the glass ceiling? : a gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain
Martín-Román, Ángel L.; Moral de Blas, Alfonso; … - 2022
We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...
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A tale of parallel processes of gender (in-)equality : how big is the glass ceilings for mena women?
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant decrease in the female labor force participation rate over the last two decades. Moreover, existing analysis and the anecdotal evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women...
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