Although women's police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have been done. This paper estimates the effects of...

Improving women's economic status has been presented in theory as a protective mechanism against intimate partner violence. Using panel data from 2011-16 for the most populous 20 percent of municipalities in Brazil, the analysis tests if the gender wage gap is causally associated with three...

Although women?s police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have been done. This paper estimates the effects of...