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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 … the implications of these investigations on college enrollment, particularly for women. We combine institution-level panel …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 a one standard deviation increase in sexual crimes per 1000 women …
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women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We focus on the partnersメ involuntary job loss experiences, and analyse …This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job … women's labour market activities in the periods before and after their partnersメ job loss. By estimating fixed effects …
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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 …
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We estimate the impact of female leaders on intimate partner violence experienced by women in districts from which they … in rural areas report experiencing physical violence from their husbands. This effect can be explained by an increase in … women's modern contraceptive use resulting from improvements in public provision of health services in exposed districts …
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for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second …We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data …-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country-of-residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics …
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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 …
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