Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …

intensity increases the likelihood of women to become a victim of domestic violence. The idea behind this is that the experience …In this paper we analyse the impact of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia and find that higher conflict … domestic violence. Taking advantage of the uneven spatial distribution of the conflict we assess its impact, using micro data …

We document an increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Sweden during the first wave of the Covid … spilling over to violence incidence, connecting to established theories of violence. We find support for the importance of time … spent at home and female unemployment. We also find a positive correlation with alcohol sales. …

women and reducing gender disparities, and by changing norms and attitudes which foster violence.- Interventions should …Morrison, Ellsberg, and Bott present an overview of gender-based violence (GBV) in Latin America, with special emphasis … violence and sexual coercion are the most common forms of GBV, and these are the types of GBV that they analyze.GBV has serious …

violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment. This finding persists when I exploit the husband's own … childhood experience of abuse as a source of plausibly exogenous variation for the incidence of domestic violence. To explore … as a measure for willingness to divorce are likely mediators. I argue that abused women may hold jobs to increase their …