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relationship between women's employment status and domestic violence is less clear-cut. Motivated by this ambiguity, this study … violence, based on quantitative data from Jordan in 2007. A notable feature of this paper is that it controls for the potential … endogeneity of women's employment which might bias the relationship between employment and spousal violence. Disregarding the …
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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 … incidence of domestic violence. Instead, specific measures and incentives may have to be targeted at different types of …
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make investments to overcome fear in the presence of economic incentives, I find that the effect of local violence on labor …
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The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...
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The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...
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Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR...
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make investments to overcome fear in the presence of economic incentives, I find that the effect of local violence on labor …
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