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of violence towards men. However, once the individual traits are controlled for, a negative relationship between the …Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 …
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-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial … productivity, we find that men in the top three quintiles of the initial productivity distribution are made better off by a …
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Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect … reveal that women’s happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men’s, but also that women’s happiness … days with bad mental health and more restless sleep. Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives such as …
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We study the impact of a medical breakthrough (HAART) on domestic violence and illicit drug use among low-income women … infected with HIV. To identify causal effects, we assume that variation in women's immune system health when HAART was … introduced affected how strongly their experience of domestic violence or drug use responded to the breakthrough. Immune system …
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In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence … decrease violence. Further, the employment effect is larger than the income effect. By way of contrast, our results suggest … violence appears to lead to a heavy-tailed error distribution. Our empirical results suggest that increases in the assailants …
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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 …
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In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …
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”. We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …
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Field experiments rely heavily on self-reported data, but subjects may misreport behaviors, especially sensitive ones such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation technique that uses intensive qualitative work to assess survey...
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adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to … lifestyle. We also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone initially reduced crime and violence, but effects … dissipated over time. When cash followed therapy, crime and violence decreased dramatically for at least a year. We hypothesize …
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