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 …

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 …

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 …