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 …

We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of … led to a reduction in intimate partner violence, without changes in partner characteristics, gender attitudes, co …-residence patterns, or division of labor. Our results are consistent with instrumental theories of violence: a decline in female earning …

Intimate partner violence is a serious form of unfreedom inflicted on women across the world. How does the incidence of … such violence vary with women's workforce participation - a factor that is supposed to enhance their economic well … as endogenous, we find that it is associated with a significantly higher probability of reported spousal violence for …

relationship between women’s employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women’s work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women’s engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …

relationship between women's autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women's paid work status and … their consequent impact on birth outcomes. Noting this, we ask how intimate partner violence and women's work status … relation. Women's working status in association with the perpetration of intimate partner violence contributes significantly to …