traditional social norms and women's status, in particular, the women's attitude towards violence and incidence of spousal … social norms determine violence against women and under what prevailing norms working women are better-off. …A body of extant literature suggests that improvements in wellbeing and empowerment of women in the process of …

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …

Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …

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 …