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 …

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …

against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse's education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood … that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable …

against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …. The only aspect of violence not affected by spouse's education is sexual violence. Schooling also lowers the likelihood … that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable …

We document an increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Sweden during the first wave of the Covid … spilling over to violence incidence, connecting to established theories of violence. We find support for the importance of time …

information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats of violence against women. Constructing comparable groups of …This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the … importantly, the role that marital selection and the diffusion of norms rejecting intimate partner violence may play in explaining …