processes in three Asian countries (China, India and Indonesia) and on three different issues: violence against women, domestic …This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate … explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against gender equality policy change, with a particular focus on women …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … against women and marriage quality. We estimate that the elasticity of violence against women with respect to the surplus of …, that the share of unmarried men is increasing in the youth sex ratio, that attitudes to violence against women are evolving …

violence is estimated. An instrumental Variables technique is used to correct for the potential endogeneity of women … domestic violence. Breaking down the estimation by region shows that women's employment decreases domestic violence in all …This study explores how domestic violence and female employment interact and impact female economic empowerment in …

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 …