violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment. This finding persists when I exploit the husband's own … suggestive evidence that a woman's decision-making power—measured by active input in household and healthcare decisions—as well … childhood experience of abuse as a source of plausibly exogenous variation for the incidence of domestic violence. To explore …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the … importantly, the role that marital selection and the diffusion of norms rejecting intimate partner violence may play in explaining …

gender roles, and also because it is likely to increase men's likelihood of using domestic violence as an instrument. Our … 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 …