In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence … violence appears to lead to a heavy-tailed error distribution. Our empirical results suggest that increases in the assailants …(i.e. the male's) income serve to increase violence, while increases in the proportion of the year that he is employed serve to …

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 …

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 …

the rest of the economy via high unemployment and reduced labor earnings, which reduced household contributions to Social …

Recession varied with the household's initial wealth. Those who were in the highest wealth deciles typically had a larger share …

-slump macroeconomic cycles. During both crises, world trade collapsed faster than world incomes and the trade decline was highly …