Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners … employed - supporting the instrumental violence hypothesis. They present this evidence only for women who live in what they …

women's improved access to inheritance on violence against women. I find that the aggregate rate of violence against women … by an improvement in marriage market negotiations and this led to women marrying partners that consume less alcohol. …This paper uses the staggered implementation of a legal change in inheritance law in India to estimate the effect of …

educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural …

educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap … schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent …Using data from the Bicol region of the Philippines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural …

This paper examines the long-term link between British colonialism and women empowerment in India. We compare women … colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy, we find that women who live in areas that were … under direct British rule, compared to their counterparts, are better off in terms of almost all measures of women …

Violence against women is persisting in many parts of the world. At the same time, there is a global trend of increased … that the work program leads to more violence against women. We argue that the effect could be explained by a "male backlash …" mechanism, where husbands exercise violence to regain power within marriage. …

We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of … led to a reduction in intimate partner violence, without changes in partner characteristics, gender attitudes, co …-residence patterns, or division of labor. Our results are consistent with instrumental theories of violence: a decline in female earning …

We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of … led to a reduction in intimate partner violence, without changes in partner characteristics, gender attitudes, co …-residence patterns, or division of labor. Our results are consistent with instrumental theories of violence: a decline in female earning …

Do policies and institutions that promote women's economic empowerment have a long-term impact on intimate partner … violence? We address this question by exploiting a natural experiment of history in Cameroon. From the end of WWI until 1961 … regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise cul- turally and geographically homogeneous …

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 …