Parenting practices are crucial for the development of children's brains and social skills. However, parenting styles may be far from ideal, particularly those of caregivers with high stress levels. Using an individual-level experiment with male and female caregivers of young children in El...

Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, this study randomly selected about 600...

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match district level administrative crime data by category to age- specific sex ratios in census data across four decades and, to analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on...

This paper uses the staggered implementation of a legal change in inheritance law in India to estimate the effect of women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women ( including female suicides) fell. This fall is due to...

Ausgangsbeschränkungen im Rahmen der Covid-19-Pandemie haben möglicherweise unbeabsichtigte soziale, gesundheitliche und wirtschaftliche Kosten verursacht, da diese mit einer Zunahme von häuslicher Gewalt einhergehen. Häusliche Gewalt kann in Form von Gewalt durch den Lebenspartner oder auch...

Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...

There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...

Häusliche Gewalt ist eine allgegenwärtige Bedrohung für das Wohlergehen von Frauen weltweit. Viele Opfer werden wiederholt von ihren Partnern misshandelt. Eine mögliche, aber umstrittene polizeiliche Maßnahme zur Bewältigung dieses Problems ist, Verdächtige unmittelbar vor Ort...

There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...