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 …

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 …

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 …

that of her husband's - causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India. Identifying the causal effect of … hypergamy violation on domestic violence, however, is challenging due to unmeasured confounding and reverse causality. To … evidence that violation of hypergamy leads to a significant increase in domestic violence. Further, we provide suggestive …

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK …), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control … because women become more likely to be employed-supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence …

The relationship between female earnings and violence in the household is negative in the US but not in many other … that violence is associated with women having less say in decisions regarding resource allocation decisions in households …. As well, although levels of violence are higher among less educated women, violence is still very prevalent among women …

violence. The empirical results suggest that among women who already have given birth to two girls, giving birth to a third …Sex preference and domestic violence are both rich literature, but there is no stream of prior studies linking the two … probability of the mother experiencing domestic violence. Using the random nature of the gender of newborn children, this study …