Despite global commitments to achieving gender equality and improving health and
wellbeing for all, quantitative data and methods to precisely estimate the effect of gender …

Times of economic uncertainty, civil unrest, and disaster are linked to a myriad of risk factors
for increased violence against women and children (VAW/C). Pandemics are no exception …

We analyze how staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic affects the rates of
domestic violence in the US Using police dispatch and crime data from 36 police and …

Using a randomized experiment in Ecuador, this study provides evidence on whether cash,
vouchers, and food transfers targeted to women and intended to reduce poverty and food …

This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner
violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, from 2005 to 2016 …

Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics
and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in …

Intimate partner violence is an important global health problem that policy makers seek to
address by a variety of interventions, including efforts to promote “women's empowerment.” …

Transfer programs have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but little
evidence exists on how activities linked to transfers affect IPV or what happens when …

Instrumental variable (IV) analysis assumes the instrument only affects the dependent
variable via its relationship with the independent variable. Other possible causal routes from …

The question of diverging interests and preferences within couples over the use of
household resources and the consequences of these conflictual views has been present for …