a household bargaining model. The relationship between the wage gap and violence suggests that reductions in violence … selection into violent relationships, I find that violence against pregnant women negatively affects the health of their … children at birth. This work sheds new light on the health production process as well as observed income gradients in health …

probability of the mother experiencing domestic violence. Using the random nature of the gender of newborn children, this study …Sex preference and domestic violence are both rich literature, but there is no stream of prior studies linking the two …. This paper addresses this gap by investigating whether a father's preference regarding the sex of children affects the …

This paper provides the first empirical analysis on the relationship between domestic violence and women's earnings in … Mexico, a country where research on intimate partner violence has not yet received much attention in the economic literature … despite the increasing rates in gender-based violence. An index for domestic violence is also created, challenging the …

We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit … from drug trafficking activities. We implement a Bartik-type instrumental variables strategy which assumes that violence in … results show that drug-related violence has negative effects on extensive and intensive margin labor market outcomes for …

link between these fluctuations and the incidence of domestic violence taking place in Uruguay. The real exchange rate is a … the models that represent household bargaining, an increase in the real exchange rate can generate an increase in the … bargaining power of men relative to that of women within the household. We present evidence that it raises the frequency of …