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 …

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 …