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 …

only to the Farm Laws, but also to decades of state-sponsored ecological and economic violence that have relegated millions … State violence manifests, and how that violence is mediated through agricultural policies. Third, it demonstrates the power … of mass nonviolent resistance as a strategic tool to confront State violence. And fourth, it explores the tension between …

(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 …

intimate partner violence. Using data from two latest rounds of the DHS surveys, and employing difference … statistically as well as economically significant reduction in severity and forms of violence toward their intimate partner. Our … particular policy has been effective in attaining its intended goal of bringing down violence toward women by their intimate …

, nurses, and other health personnel. In the Indian context, studies on violence against doctors and other medical staff … violence against medical personnel partly, we argue that it is largely rooted in a lack of trust in doctors and hospitals …