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 …This paper seeks to fill a knowledge gap relative to the low uptake of services for women living in situations of …

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … intimate partner violence. It also examines the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of controlling …'s experiences of physical and sexual intimate partner violence. Controlling behaviors from husbands/partners and reductions in women …

Although women?s police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … most severe form of domestic violence. Given that a high fraction of female deaths among women ages 15 to 49 years can be … quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have …

models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman's risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a … dataset collected in peri-urban Dhaka, this analysis documents a positive correlation between work and domestic violence. This … correlation is only present among women with less education or who were younger at first marriage. These results are consistent …

the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have … saved about 33 million women between 1990 and 2012. The negative relationship between domestic violence legislation and …

levels of economic development. Violence is higher in locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests. The …

The authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad … manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America. They also discuss the ways in which violence affects development, the root … causes of violence, and the empirical evidence on the determinants of crime. The authors conclude by stressing that …

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 …

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 study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data …