,311 children 6-42 months in Bogota, Colombia. We compare scores on these short tests to those on the Bayley Scales of Infant and …

,311 children 6-42 months in Bogota, Colombia. We compare scores on these short tests to those on the Bayley Scales of Infant and …

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

link between these fluctuations and the incidence of domestic violence taking place in Uruguay. The real exchange rate is a … domestic violence. This holds true in rich and poor areas of the city. …

A growing literature seeks to identify policies that could reduce intimate partner violence. However, in the absence of … reliable administrative records, this violence is often measured using self-reported data from health surveys. In this paper …, underreport physical and sexual violence. The paper provides a low-cost solution to correct the bias in the estimation of causal …

the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence -measured by homicide rates- on birth outcomes. Focusing on small … communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide rates reflect actual exposure to violence, the analysis shows that … exposure to violence during pregnancy leads to deterioration in birth outcomes: one extra homicide during the first trimester …

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 …

There are few reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes. This study exploits the manifold … prices and homicides and exploits within- municipality variation, the study finds that the burden of violence affects only …