against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of …This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to 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 … which women have more limited access to divorce than men …

impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being …