Marshall Lecture 2022: The Economics of Women's Rights

M Tertilt, M Doepke, A Hannusch… - Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no
say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have …

COVID-19 and domestic violence: Economics or isolation?

A Henke, L Hsu - Journal of family and economic issues, 2022 - Springer
Recent studies estimate that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly increases reports of
domestic violence in several countries. Using mobile device tracking data, city-level …

'Til Dowry Do Us Part: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families

R Calvi, A Keskar - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
We develop a non-cooperative bargaining model with incomplete information linking dowry
payments, domestic violence, resource allocation between a husband and a wife, and …

Compulsory schooling reform and intimate partner violence in Turkey

P Akyol, MG Kırdar - European Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine how Turkey's 1997 compulsory schooling policy affects intimate partner
violence (IPV) using the 2008 and 2014 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of intimate partner violence on women's labour market outcomes

C Gedikli, G Popli, O Yilmaz - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of intimate partner violence on the participation of women
in the labour market and their access to employment in the form of being a wage worker, self …

Barriers to empowerment at the intersection of motherhood, TANF, and intimate partner violence

J Thomas, SR Leat, D Maxwell, J Williams - Journal of Family Violence, 2024 - Springer
Purpose The purpose of this study was to better understand the experiences and barriers to
employment of survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) who utilized the Transitional …

Women's empowerment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from a multidimensional policy in india

S Chatterjee, P Poddar - Economic Development and …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
In this paper, we study a multidimensional women's empowerment program from India to
estimate its effects on intimate partner violence faced by women. We exploit plausibly …

[HTML][HTML] Women's empowerment, maternal depression, and stress: Evidence from rural Burkina Faso

J Leight, A Pedehombga, R Ganaba, A Gelli - SSM-Mental Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Though there is a wide array of evidence that women's empowerment is
associated with more positive health and nutritional outcomes for women and children …

Natural disasters and acceptance of intimate partner violence: The global evidence

A Mavisakalyan, V Otrachshenko, O Popova - 2024 - econstor.eu
This paper examines the dynamic impact of natural disasters on the individual acceptance of
a physical form of intimate partner violence (IPV). Based on a global sample of individual …

Multifaceted programs targeting women in fragile settings: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

M Angelucci, R Heath, E Noble - Journal of Development Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
We study the impact of a multifaceted program for ultra-poor women in eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo. We cross-randomized the primary treatment–a holistic set of services …