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partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …
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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 …
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" 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 …
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analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of … as a function of the sex ratio at birth and marriage quality measures, including self-reported domestic violence, are …
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Exploiting high-frequency data from the Italian anti-violence helpline and a unique geolocalized dataset on killings of … model in which the news of a femicide increase expectations about future intimate partner violence in case no call is made. …
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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 …
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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 …
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Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners … employed-supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence only for women who live in what they call …
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Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners … employed - supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence only for women who live in what they …
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violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961 … in former British territories are 30% more likely to be victims of domestic violence than those in former French … former French areas. These results are incompatible with household bargaining models that incorporate domestic violence but …
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