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 …

We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence … to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January … distribution of CARES Act stimulus payments. We observe that domestic violence calls for areas with higher concentration of …

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 …

and its economic consequences on domestic violence has surged. This paper disentangles the effect of forced coexistence … and economic stress on intimate partner violence. Using an online survey data set, we find a 23% increase of intimate … partner violence during the lockdown. Our results indicate that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the …

police-reported domestic violence. Variation comes from a large randomized controlled trial designed to assist victims in …

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences …

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of …

Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the … legalization of abortion and the enactment of laws permitting young unmarried women to consent to it led to substantial delays in …

and over time, we find that laws that criminalize violence against women and/or marital rape lower its incidence. Using … externalities to violence against women and underline the importance of recent efforts to tackle this violence in developing …We examine the effect of domestic violence on mortality of children born to female victims using Demographic and Health …

We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional … football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a … of at-home violence by men against their wives and girlfriends. In contrast, losses when the game was expected to be …