The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy …-level regulations in alcohol sale and consumption and provide estimates from two different strategies - an instrumental variable …

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed effects strategy …-level regulations in alcohol sale and consumption and provide estimates from two different strategies - an instrumental variable …

the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have … saved about 33 million women between 1990 and 2012. The negative relationship between domestic violence legislation and …

violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment. This finding persists when I exploit the husband's own … childhood experience of abuse as a source of plausibly exogenous variation for the incidence of domestic violence. To explore … as a measure for willingness to divorce are likely mediators. I argue that abused women may hold jobs to increase their …

the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have … saved about 33 million women between 1990 and 2012. The negative relationship between domestic violence legislation and …

paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant … perception in the context of the criminal justice system. In particular, we consider the language of domestic violence and sexual … conversational style and female violence victims’ genderlect may collide to produce evidentiary issues and a credibility gap. We …