We evaluate the causal impact of average neighbourhood attitudes justifying intimate partner violence (IPV) on own … endogeneity concerns in estimating peer in uences, we utilize exogenous variation in the average exposure of neighbourhood women … impressionable. This underscores the need for enhanced implementation of policies targeting women's empowerment to arrest the …

. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal …

of women accepting domestic violence. This suggests that increasing access to media may lead to greater empowerment of …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 …

traditional social norms and women's status, in particular, the women's attitude towards violence and incidence of spousal … social norms determine violence against women and under what prevailing norms working women are better-off. …A body of extant literature suggests that improvements in wellbeing and empowerment of women in the process of …