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

remains a 'black box' (Western, 2021). This paper studies the impact of the new psychoactive substances (NPS) epidemic within … seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large … increase in NPS availability and an alarming correlation with the steep rise in harm and violence behind bars. I then evaluate …

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 examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … appears to reflect reporting rather than incidence as we find no changes in femicide or in survey-reported domestic violence …

This paper assesses the effect of the creation of specialized intimate partner violence (IPV) courts on the reporting …

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 …

affected victims of intimate partner violence; e.g., it succeeded until just five years ago in blocking efforts to legalize … generally favorable influence of religion on health and many other domains of life, including intimate partner violence. The … the 2005 Survey of Student Well-Being, a questionnaire on gender based violence administered to students at a large public …