relationship between women's employment status and domestic violence is less clear-cut. Motivated by this ambiguity, this study … endogeneity of women's employment which might bias the relationship between employment and spousal violence. Disregarding the … turn out to be insignificant, which suggests that women's work status has no causal influence on marital violence. …

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

Violence has a striking gender pattern. Men are more likely to be attacked by a stranger, while women experience … violence mostly from their partners. This paper estimates the costs of violence against women in terms of intangible outcomes … that physical violence against women is strongly associated with their marital status because it increases the divorce or …

women, and to identifying the nature and forms of violence against women prevailing in the society. The study was delimited … presented in graphical form. The study concluded that violence against women exists in different forms including pushing and … study also concludes that illiterate women had ever experienced one or the other form of physical violence. The occurrence …