This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data … rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy … implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a theoretical framework that rationalizes why men may use violence …-monotonic relationship between the gender wage gap and domestic violence. We explore the implication of this result in the context of various …

" mechanism, where husbands exercise violence to regain power within marriage. …Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At the same time, there is a global trend of increased … female labour force participation. In this paper we study the effect on intimate partner violence of a large public work …

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 …

This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the … information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of … importantly, the role that marital selection and the diffusion of norms rejecting intimate partner violence may play in explaining …

We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit … relative to men affected the risk of intimate partner violence. We document that men indistricts facing larger tariff … the laborforce. These changes in employment patterns triggered backlash effects by increasing intimate partner violence …

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK …

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK …