This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …

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 … analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence …

In this paper we analyse the impact of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia and find that higher conflict … intensity increases the likelihood of women to become a victim of domestic violence. The idea behind this is that the experience … domestic violence. Taking advantage of the uneven spatial distribution of the conflict we assess its impact, using micro data …