relationship between women's employment status and domestic violence is less clear-cut. Motivated by this ambiguity, this study … endogeneity of women's employment which might bias the relationship between employment and spousal violence. Disregarding the … turn out to be insignificant, which suggests that women's work status has no causal influence on marital violence. …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed effects strategy … approach and a border-analysis. Our findings indicate that a one standard deviation increase in sexual crimes per 1000 women …

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 can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We …

attainment. The study finds that women who were exposed to the reform experience have greater average schooling years, and …

mathematics (STEM). Using data from the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), the author finds that women … type of grouping estimator and a control function approach is used. The estimation results show, that women in STEM work …