Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence …. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has … find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …

The literature relating economic activity to political violence posits greedy rebels (Collier, 2000) but not greedy … motivates rebel violence? Panel data on political violence in the Philippines distinguish government from rebel attacks, which ….e., extortionary violence by rebels in response to investment) to the interplay of government, rebels and civilians, generating …

, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data … on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …

decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction of domestic violence. We compare our findings to that from a published … study in South Africa that combined discussion sessions on life skills and health on reduction in domestic violence and … in household authority, with the Burundi study showing statistical significance. In South Africa there was a large …

Family violence is a pervasive and costly problem, yet there is no consensus on how to interpret the phenomenon of … violence by one family member against another. Some analysts assume that violence has an instrumental role in intra … using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …

Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study both the economic causes and … consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with … a household bargaining model. The relationship between the wage gap and violence suggests that reductions in violence …

partner violence, and construct a theory to explain them. Transfers to women averaging USD 709 reduced physical and sexual … violence (-0:26, -0:22 standard deviations). Transfers to men reduced physical violence (-0:18 SD). We find spillovers …: physical violence towards non-recipient women in treatment villages decreased (-0:16 SD). We show theoretically that transfers …

It is estimated that between ten and twenty percent of children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence … annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home … exploiting a unique data set in which children's school records are matched to domestic violence cases filed by their parent. To …