The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in … decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction of domestic violence. We compare our findings to that from a published …

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 …

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 …

Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … contemporary violence. Second, women’s contemporary economic role affects violence in a complex way which is itself related to … determine social norms about gender roles, family structures and intrafamily violence which persist even when the initial …

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 … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative …

Many violent relationships are characterized by a high degree of cyclicality: women who are the victims of domestic … violence often leave and return multiple times. To explain this we develop a model of time inconsistent preferences in the … context of domestic violence. This time inconsistency generates a demand for commitment. We present supporting evidence that …

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 … selection into violent relationships, I find that violence against pregnant women negatively affects the health of their …

This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …