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Understanding Access Barriers to Public Services: Lessons from a Randomized Domestic Violence Intervention
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux; Matheson, Jesse; … - 2019
police-reported domestic violence. Variation comes from a large randomized controlled trial designed to assist victims in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059191
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Understanding access barriers to public services : lessons from a randomized domestic violence intervention
Koppensteiner, Martin; Matheson, Jesse; Plugor, Rékar - 2019
police-reported domestic violence. Variation comes from a large randomized controlled trial designed to assist victims in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034209
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Female political representation and violence against women : evidence from Brazil
Delaporte, Magdalena; Pino, Francisco - 2022
This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013263090
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Public services and liveability in European cities in comparison
Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2021
A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602704
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Female Political Representation and Violence Against Women : Evidence from Brazil
Delaporte, Magdalena; Pino, Francisco - 2022
This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082315
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Effective Project Management in India : A Study on Provision of Infrastructure Services Through Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
Rehman, Anis ur - 2017
The most significant criteria for the continued growth rate of an economy rests on the provision of quality infrastructure. The Indian government finds it difficult to provide the required financial and technical resources and the executive capacity to cope with the rising demand for roads,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958262
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Estimating individual total costs of domestic violence
Santos, Cristina - 2008
This paper estimates total individual costs of domestic violence. It draws on a cross-section survey that includes data … satisfaction approach, it estimates the variation in income needed to compensate for the presence of domestic violence …, approximating the shadow price of domestic violence. It accounts for socio-demographic characteristics, relative bargaining power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665280
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Identifying the causal effect of alcohol abuse on the perpetration of intimate partner violence by men using a natural experiment
Averett, Susan; Yang Wang - 2014
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252706
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Social distancing, stimulus payments, and domestic violence : evidence from the US during COVID-19
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Prina, Silvia - 2022
We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence … to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January … distribution of CARES Act stimulus payments. We observe that domestic violence calls for areas with higher concentration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888406
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Can't Leave You Now! Intimate Partner Violence Under Forced Coexistence and Economic Uncertainty
Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2020
and its economic consequences on domestic violence has surged. This paper disentangles the effect of forced coexistence … and economic stress on intimate partner violence. Using an online survey data set, we find a 23% increase of intimate … partner violence during the lockdown. Our results indicate that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826237