This paper asks whether social movements taking place on Twitter affect gender-based violence (GBV). Using Twitter data … link this data to weekly crime reports at the federal state level from the United States. We exploit the high … point out that Twitter tweets related to GBV lead to a decrease in reported crime rates. The evidence shows that …

gender-based violence has been limited. Previous studies have highlighted the effect of female political representation on … incidence of gender-based violence in the United States. Using a regression discontinuity design on mixed-gender races, we find … electoral district. The drop in femicides is mainly driven by a deterrence effect that results from higher police responsiveness …

analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence …This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … district level administrative crime data by category to age- specific sex ratios in census data across four decades and, to …

Papers in the special issue were presented at five conferences in the After the Pandemic Conference Series, organized …

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative …

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative …

likely to state that they know a victim of violence but are not more likely to state that violence (physical or psychological … likely to suggest that a hypothetical victim of violence either not react to or deal directly with the partner rather than … look for formal help. Using different controls for the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on the respondents …

This study presents new findings on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity and innovation for Caribbean … pandemic, have a negative effect in the shares of female participation which, in turn, have the potential to nullify the …

widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We consider prepandemic division …