In this paper we analyze the factors that explain attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in … the international ones: approval of IPVAW is higher among women, people in rural areas, people in a disadvantaged socio … since the enactment of women’s suffrage. The most novel contribution of our work is the study of the variables at country …

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 … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …

survey conducted with more than 4,500 Italian women in July 2020, we show that women with stronger stereotypes are more … likely to state that they know a victim of violence but are not more likely to state that violence (physical or psychological … likely to suggest that a hypothetical victim of violence either not react to or deal directly with the partner rather than …

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 …

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 can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …

against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse's education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands’ mothers …

We develop a scale of severity of violence against women based on fuzzy set theory. The scale can be used to derive … scale and three widely used alternatives - the Conflict Tactic Scale, The Severity of Violence Against Women Scale and the … fuzzy indexes of violence which account for the prevalence, frequency and severity of violence. Using the results of the …

Contraception is a crucial tool that empowers women to control their bodily autonomy. Concurrently, violence against … women remains a pressing public-health issue depleting women's autonomy. We establish a causal link between the decision to … use contraception and the occurrence of intimate partner violence. Utilizing newly available nationally representative …

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were … under direct British rule, compared to their counterparts, are better off in terms of almost all measures of women …

We evaluate the causal impact of average neighbourhood attitudes justifying intimate partner violence (IPV) on own … endogeneity concerns in estimating peer in uences, we utilize exogenous variation in the average exposure of neighbourhood women … impressionable. This underscores the need for enhanced implementation of policies targeting women's empowerment to arrest the …