In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence … violence appears to lead to a heavy-tailed error distribution. Our empirical results suggest that increases in the assailants …(i.e. the male's) income serve to increase violence, while increases in the proportion of the year that he is employed serve to …

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 … which women have more limited access to divorce than men …

In this paper, we study the effect of household shocks on the incidence of domestic violence using household survey …. We find that droughts lead to a considerable increase of domestic violence in the households. A one standard deviation …