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 …

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 …

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 …

A large body of evidence documents a link between alcohol consumption and violence involving intimate partners and …-at-home orders, there has been a marked increase in domestic violence. This research considers an important mechanism behind the … increase in domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: an increase in the riskiness of alcohol consumption. We combine 911 …

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 …

suggest that both violence and drug use could be reduced by improving women's access to better healthcare …We study the impact of health shocks on domestic violence and illicit drug use. We argue that health is a form of human … relationships. To estimate causal effects, we examine chronically ill women before and after a medical breakthrough and exploit …

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

local violence prior to conception has detrimental effects on infant health at birth. The results suggest that loss of women …This paper studies the effects of mothers' long-term pre-conception exposure to local violence on birth outcomes. Using …, highlighting intergenerational consequences of exposure to local violence. Our findings shed light on the welfare implications of …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using …