We document an increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Sweden during the first wave of the Covid … spilling over to violence incidence, connecting to established theories of violence. We find support for the importance of time … spent at home and female unemployment. We also find a positive correlation with alcohol sales. …

We study the introduction of a price floor for alcohol that is aimed at correcting for negative consumption … to match these patterns, and use this to compare the welfare performance of a price floor with the counterfactual … drinkers, then a price floor is better targeted at the most socially costly consumption and therefore achieves larger welfare …

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new …'s abilities, and a parachute effect, associated with family labour market connections. …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the … importantly, the role that marital selection and the diffusion of norms rejecting intimate partner violence may play in explaining …

, albeit only for women. Women in a better than normal mood tend to exhibit mood-congruent behavior, i.e. they weight … probabilities of gains and losses relatively more optimistically. Men’s probability weights are not responsive to mood state. We … find that the application of a mechanical decision criterion, such as the maximization of expected value, immunizes men …

Violence has a striking gender pattern. Men are more likely to be attacked by a stranger, while women experience … violence mostly from their partners. This paper estimates the costs of violence against women in terms of intangible outcomes … that physical violence against women is strongly associated with their marital status because it increases the divorce or …

. This is evidenced by the high level of self-reporting by men and women of sexual violence and domestic violence in recent …Violence against women (VAW) is only beginning to be recognized as a major societal problem within and across Asia … UN surveys; the extremely low conviction rates for these forms of violence; the slow, partial or non-adoption of anti …