We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit … from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in … results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for …

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 … that the work program leads to more violence against women. We argue that the effect could be explained by a "male backlash …