While many commentators perceive unemployment to be a key risk factor for intimate partner violence, the empirical … estimate the effects of total and gender-specific unemployment rates on domestic violence. The analysis uses the substantial … area and age group. Our results suggest that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic violence …

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 … incidence of domestic violence. Instead, specific measures and incentives may have to be targeted at different types of …

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 … incidence of domestic violence. Instead, specific measures and incentives may have to be targeted at different types of …

We examine the impact of business cycle variation on intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty … incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2.75 percent. This is consistent with the financial … women's employment opportunities), conditional upon rates of male unemployment reduce the incidence of violence; a one …

In this paper, we empirically estimate the causal impact of maternal domestic violence on the nutritional status of her …, we find robust evidence that violence experienced by mothers at the hands of her husband significantly increases the … likelihood of her children being malnourished. When we focus on identifying the pathways through which domestic violence affect …

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 …

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 …

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 …

, conditional on income and a set of sociodemo-graphic characteristics. Using cross-sectional data from the Violence Against Women … physical violence, while female employment only lowers the risk of violence when her partner is employed too. The lowest risk …

We analyze the effect of social distancing related to COVID-19 on domestic violence incidents in the U.S. using novel … departments. We find that reported incidents of domestic violence increase after local stay-at-home orders are enacted and that … domestic violence increases with mobile device tracking measures of social distancing. Our result is consistent with an …