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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 leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence....
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committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …'s model on crime we investigate some potential reasons for the participation gap looking at the differential incentives … face a 10% higher probability of arrest with respect to males. Once we account for type of crime and the attributes of …
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district level administrative crime data by category to age- specific sex ratios in census data across four decades and, to … discernible impact upon property and economic crime. In probing mechanisms we argue that men are more prone to crime than women …
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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 leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082315
States' governance of gender is not unidirectional. In addition to 'stagnation' and 'progress', there can be an active reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the following questions: What are the likely causes of...
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prisons. This paper shows that female politicians in the US do not have any immediate negative effect on actual crime rates …. The OLS estimates show that female politicians have a significant but negligible effect on crime. To address any … instrumental variable results show that female politicians do not have a statistically significant effect on crime rates. I then …
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administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …
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administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …
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administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499651
We examine the relationship between extreme temperatures and violent mortality across Russian regions, with implications for the social costs of climate change. We assess the unequal impact of temperature shocks across gender and age groups by exploring a dataset on temperature and violence in...
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