We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data … for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second …-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country-of-residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics …

data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college …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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

. Although the percentage of Ph.D. degrees awarded to women and the representation of women on faculties have increased over time …, economics still lags many other fields. Previous research has documented gender gaps in tenure, promotion and publication, some … of which have narrowed over time. This study examines another aspect of women's representation within the economics …

psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the classroom. Specifically, using data from a …