violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment. This finding persists when I exploit the husband's own … suggestive evidence that a woman's decision-making power—measured by active input in household and healthcare decisions—as well … childhood experience of abuse as a source of plausibly exogenous variation for the incidence of domestic violence. To explore …

In this paper we analyse the impact of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia and find that higher conflict … intensity increases the likelihood of women to become a victim of domestic violence. The idea behind this is that the experience … domestic violence. Taking advantage of the uneven spatial distribution of the conflict we assess its impact, using micro data …

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 …