Gender-based Violence (GBV) is the most egregious manifestation of gender inequality and an alarming global public … health, human rights and development challenge. It is most often perpetrated against women and girls. This note reviews … eradicate GBV: GBV prevention and response clear the path to reach development goals, including gender equality …

gender-based violence has been limited. Previous studies have highlighted the effect of female political representation on … incidence of gender-based violence in the United States. Using a regression discontinuity design on mixed-gender races, we find …Every day, three women are murdered in the United States by a current or former partner. Yet policy action to prevent …

interventions aimed to promote positive health and social behaviors have mixed or harmful effects on gender-based violence, and … investigated the relationship between a lottery-based incentive and gender-based violence among female sex workers in Dar es Salaam …-to-treat analysis was conducted to estimate differences in physical and sexual gender-based violence (overall), and intimate partner …

To understand laws pertaining to gender-based violence (GBV) in countries with high HIV prevalence particularly among … adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), we reviewed GBV laws and regulations from initial ten eastern and southern African …

for participants in lake-fishing villages to justify violence against women. Our findings provide experimental evidence … supporting the idea that differences in cultural norms about gender equality shape individual attitudes towards violence against …We construct measures of gender altruism, or the propensity of an equal allocation towards the other gender, in a …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …