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 …

We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit … from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in … results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for …

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 …