for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second …We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data …-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country-of-residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics …

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961 … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the … importantly, the role that marital selection and the diffusion of norms rejecting intimate partner violence may play in explaining …