This paper provides the first empirical analysis on the relationship between domestic violence and women's earnings in … Mexico, a country where research on intimate partner violence has not yet received much attention in the economic literature … despite the increasing rates in gender-based violence. An index for domestic violence is also created, challenging the …

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 …

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy … implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various …

" mechanism, where husbands exercise violence to regain power within marriage. …Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At the same time, there is a global trend of increased … female labour force participation. In this paper we study the effect on intimate partner violence of a large public work …