Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … contemporary violence. Second, women’s contemporary economic role affects violence in a complex way which is itself related to … determine social norms about gender roles, family structures and intrafamily violence which persist even when the initial …

Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors … contemporary violence. Second, women's contemporary economic role affects violence in a complex way which is itself related to … determine social norms about gender roles, family structures and intrafamily violence which persist even when the initial …

in 33 ethnic civil conflicts in Africa between 1989 and 2009 and their use of sexual violence. After exploiting ancestral … the appropriate role of men and women in society: sexual violence increases when the perpetrator is more gender …This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence …

We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from … large degree of spatial variation in both attitudes and actions of violence against women. Using rich individual survey and … high-resolution georeferenced data, we find systematically less violence against women in traditionally sea-fishing areas …

This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …