In this paper, we study the effect of household shocks on the incidence of domestic violence using household survey … microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households …. We find that droughts lead to a considerable increase of domestic violence in the households. A one standard deviation …

This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims … mutual consent, led to a decrease in help-seeking behavior among intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors and an increase in … leave abusive relationships, the requirement for mutual consent may inadvertently escalate violence as husbands seek to …

survey conducted with more than 4,500 Italian women in July 2020, we show that women with stronger stereotypes are more … likely to state that they know a victim of violence but are not more likely to state that violence (physical or psychological … likely to suggest that a hypothetical victim of violence either not react to or deal directly with the partner rather than …

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 …

Exploiting high-frequency data from the Italian anti-violence helpline and a unique geolocalized dataset on killings of … women, we show that the news coverage of a femicide triggers an increase in calls to the helpline. The effect is detectable … model in which the news of a femicide increase expectations about future intimate partner violence in case no call is made. …

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. …

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws … online survey with counsellors and domestic violence experts. The number of violence-related requests at helplines increased … substituted help services away from ambulatory care towards helplines. We do not observe exacerbated violence in states with …

violence. Besides, factors related to marriage setting have a significant role in the effect of women’s superior status on … intimate partner violence. Overall, we provide evidence to support the relative resource theory and invalidate the intra-household …This paper analyses intimate partner violence in Turkey which faces an enormous increase in femicide cases over the …

We examine the causal effect of women's age at marriage on prevalence of domestic violence using newly available … evidence that the effect of women's marital age on physical violence arises because older brides, as compared to younger brides … household data from India. We employ an empirical strategy that utilizes variation in age at menarche to obtain exogenous …

This study examines the effects of communal violence on women’s marital outcomes. Using individual-level survey data … from India and a difference-in-differences approach, the study shows that women’s age of marriage decreased, and the … synthetic control methods suggest that these effects are prominent two years after the riots and have increased over time. Women …