This paper provides experimental evidence of the effect of having peers with different propensities for violence in the … diverse peers in terms of violence, the study measures the effects of segregation or integration on students' behavioral …, neurophysiological, and academic outcomes. The paper also exploits a discontinuity around the median of the propensity for violence …

violence. The phenomenon is observed in many countries, including in Brazil, despite its robust legal framework to prevent and … protect women from domestic violence. Through qualitative research, this paper explores the experience of women survivors of … violence against women (VAW) in seeking help to exit abusive relationships, with the aim of identifying avenues to strengthen …

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict …-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013 Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey …

This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data … rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …

This paper analyzes the incidence and extent to which domestic violence and physical harassment on public/private buses … underreporting is over nine percentage points for domestic violence and negligible for physical harassment on public/private buses …. Urban households, especially poor urban households, tend to have higher levels of incidence of domestic violence. Further …

? Drawing on information on attitudes toward extreme violence and other characteristics of 30,787 individuals from 27 developing …

-based violence. This baseline report is part of a cluster-randomized controlled trial, which aims to assess the program's impact 24 … having experienced sexual violence of some type, such as being physically forced to have sex, non-physically pressured … the UNICEF Violence against Children Surveys (VACS) in Swaziland, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe. As the VACS reporting is …

The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long …-term episodes of conflict. In contrast to previous studies, this paper explores whether violence that does not include the …. Violence is measured as the number of non-drug-related homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. A municipality is classified as …