analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence … 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 …

This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children … partner violence, early marriage, and female genital mutilations - negatively affect the schooling of boys and girls …

Christianity. The paper takes a historical and contemporary look at how religious traditions affect marriage, using a modified … contractual lens, which enables us to theorize about long-run marriage and divorce rates. …

This paper examines the impact of the 2014 Italian divorce law on help-seeking behavior of domestic violence victims … mutual consent, led to a decrease in help-seeking behavior among intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors and an increase in … leave abusive relationships, the requirement for mutual consent may inadvertently escalate violence as husbands seek to …

) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. -- post-marital education ; marriage contract ; divorce … of an efficiency loss. Efficiency can be restored through suitably designed marriage contracts because they can provide …