Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences …. Researchers have documented a strong positive correlation between alcohol abuse and IPV. Yet prior researchers have struggled with … the problem of the potential endogeneity of alcohol abuse.In this paper, we deal with this problem by exploring a unique …

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added …

What causes alcohol abuse and domestic violence and how can we stop them? These behaviors have multiple determinants … in wife's and husband's income on husband alcohol abuse and alcohol-induced violence using new data from rural Mexico. A … out transfers from the husband only for 5% of the wives whose income increases. Alcohol abuse and violence are insensitive …

We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that … limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits … construct representative and consistent measures of alcohol prices and sales from scanner data collected for hundreds of …

We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in … that men in postwar marriages were better off in terms of their spouse's education, this gain amounting to about half a …

Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …, we instrument for family size using twin births and sex composition. IV estimates using sex composition as an instrument … show no negative effect of family size; however, IV estimates using twins imply that family size has a negative effect on …

We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a … may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find no evidence that employment status and work arrangements are … related to higher self-reported levels of family stress and violence in the home due to confinement, suggesting that remote …