less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by reducing their labor supply by about half an hour, consistent with … substantial leisure complementarity, and specifically cut the non-usual component of their workweek, leaving usual hours unchanged …. Women's response to their husband's treatment is instead weak and rarely statistically significant, possibly due to heavier …

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 …, such as women’s reproductive health, labor supply, and the welfare of their children. The study uses a sample of nearly 83 …

Violence against women (VAW) is only beginning to be recognized as a major societal problem within and across Asia …. This is evidenced by the high level of self-reporting by men and women of sexual violence and domestic violence in recent … particularly via the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the pressure exerted …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …