We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit … from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in … results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for …

link between these fluctuations and the incidence of domestic violence taking place in Uruguay. The real exchange rate is a … domestic violence. This holds true in rich and poor areas of the city. …

leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of …This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … Discontinuity design for close mayoral elections between female and male candidates in Brazil, we find that electing female mayors …

This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a …, increasing the salience of gender distinctions and existing gender norms which legitimize gendered violence. … statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross …