We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …

Globally, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has sparked unexpected and violent outbursts against doctors …, 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 …

( including female suicides) fell. This fall is due to changes in police-reported violence as well as in female mortality. The law … women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women … did not change male mortality or other forms of non-gender based crime. Further, at the individual level I find that …

violence against their partners, suggesting a causal channel between alcohol consumption and domestic violence. These results … associated with lower rates of motor vehicle accidents and crimes against women, but not other forms of crime. …

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 …

A hidden cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is the stigma associated with the disease for those infected and groups that are … certain groups such as religious minorities, lower-caste groups, and frontline workers (healthcare, police), and reduces the …

that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of … hypergamy violation on domestic violence, however, is challenging due to unmeasured confounding and reverse causality. To … evidence that violation of hypergamy leads to a significant increase in domestic violence. Further, we provide suggestive …

With crimes in India rising exponentially in the last decade, particularly violence against women, several states have … its impact on crimes against women. Results indicate that overall there is no significant impact on violence against women … for specific states. While in states that implemented the new system prior to 2016, crime rates against women decreased …