relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

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 …

make investments to overcome fear in the presence of economic incentives, I find that the effect of local violence on labor …

Sexual violence has long been a problem on college campuses, yet federal policies to protect students have largely been … Amendments of 1972.These investigations focus attention on specific colleges' responses to cases of sexual violence and raise the …

We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of … led to a reduction in intimate partner violence, without changes in partner characteristics, gender attitudes, co …-residence patterns, or division of labor. Our results are consistent with instrumental theories of violence: a decline in female earning …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …

, we investigate to what extent cultural influence is driven by religious beliefs: we find that religion is a key … determinant of differences in female labor decisions, but, besides religion, other cultural values exert additional influence …