(MGNREGS), on domestic violence via its role as social insurance and a means for improving women's say in household decisions … between income shocks and domestic violence. The empirical section uses a difference-in-differences strategy to show that the … implementation of MGNREGA reduces the effect of adverse rainfall shocks on offcially reported domestic violence at the district level …

Greater access to media may influence norms about domestic violence. It may lead to greater acceptance of violence (due … to an increase in the incidence of violence) or to lower acceptance due to a change in gender norms. Applying a … of women accepting domestic violence. This suggests that increasing access to media may lead to greater empowerment of …

development programs on violence is surprisingly mixed. To break this impasse, we exploit a within-country policy experiment to … examine the conditions under which anti-poverty programs reduce violence. The roll-out of India's National Rural Employment … Guarantee Scheme caused a large long-run reduction in Maoist conflict violence, as measured with an original data set based on …

This paper asks: is it a fact that there is more violence in districts affected by Naxalite (Maoist) activity compared …

potential future communal violence in socially fragmented contexts where conflicting social groups live alongside each other. …