This paper analyzes the magnitude and predictors of misreporting on intimate partner and sexual violence in Nigeria and … face-to-face method. In Rwanda, intimate partner violence rates increase by 100 percent, and in Nigeria, they increase by … indicators often targeted in women's empowerment programs, such as gender norms and female employment and education. These …

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 …

Marital shocks are exceedingly common for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper investigates whether women who have … suffered a marital rupture experience lower welfare levels relative to married women in their first union. Conditional means … for women's nutritional status are compared by marital status across 20 countries. Overall, the results indicate …

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 …

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 …

correlation is only present among women with less education or who were younger at first marriage. These results are consistent … violence, work in response to economic shocks, or underreporting of domestic violence. The results on age at marriage are also … models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman's risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a …

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 …

This paper investigates a women's self-help group program with more than 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest … rural areas of Northern India. The program has four streams of activity in micro-savings, agricultural enterprise training …