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Violence against women is acknowledged globally as a fundamental human rights violation. Gender-Based Violence [GBV] is … provisions, lost income, and decreased productivity, including adverse consequences on future human capital formation for women … the links between GBV and its economic impact. It reviews costing methods and identifies types of costs that potentially …
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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … Demographic and Health Surveys from 18 sub-Saharan African countries, it appears that the acts of GBV - measured through intimate … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …
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in domestic violence in places where women are traditionally more subordinate …This study investigates the impact of female labor productivity on domestic violence in Peru. I construct exogenous … shifters of gender-specific labor productivity by exploiting gender-specific comparative advantage in the production of major …
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Exploiting high-frequency data from the Italian anti-violence helpline and a unique geolocalized dataset on killings of … women, we show that the news coverage of a femicide triggers an increase in calls to the helpline. The effect is detectable … model in which the news of a femicide increase expectations about future intimate partner violence in case no call is made. …
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We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … appears to reflect reporting rather than incidence as we find no changes in femicide or in survey-reported domestic violence …
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We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … appears to reflect reporting rather than incidence as we find no changes in femicide or in survey-reported domestic violence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499651
This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of … men age 20-24 is unity, and that this explains about 35% of the rise in gender-based violence since 1995. Although less …
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gender-based violence has been limited. Previous studies have highlighted the effect of female political representation on … incidence of gender-based violence in the United States. Using a regression discontinuity design on mixed-gender races, we find …Every day, three women are murdered in the United States by a current or former partner. Yet policy action to prevent …
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found. However, there is robust evidence of women subject to domestic violence receiving significantly lower calories from …Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper explores the determinants of domestic violence against … women as well as its implications for the resources allocated to women. The findings reveal that higher education of women …
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Using a new measure of the strength of gender stereotypes defined at the individual level and based on responses to a … survey conducted with more than 4,500 Italian women in July 2020, we show that women with stronger stereotypes are more … likely to state that they know a victim of violence but are not more likely to state that violence (physical or psychological …
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