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Three Essays on the Economics of Gender Public Deposited

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  • This dissertation contains three chapters describing the ways that certain economic conditions differentially affect women. The first chapter, "Local Shelter Availability and Intimate Partner Homicides" estimates the effect of having any local shelter in a county on female intimate partner homicide rates. Poor economic conditions often keep women trapped in dangerous relationships, but local shelters may reduce the cost of leaving. Using state-of-the-art difference-in-differences models and a panel of local shelter counts and homicide rates from 1998-2016, I find that the opening of a local shelter in a county that did not previously have one can prevent approximately one female intimate partner homicide per 100,000 people every three to four years, about a 68% reduction. The second chapter, "Domestic Violence Injuries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Medical Claims" uses emergency medical claims data to estimate the effect of the pandemic on emergency department utilization for domestic violence injuries during a time of heightened domestic violence 911 calls. We find that emergency medical care utilization decreased in the early weeks of the pandemic, especially in geographic areas that were more affected by pandemic-related job loss. The third chapter, "Supervisor Demographics and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the NLSY97" estimates the effect of having a same-race or same-gender supervisor early in one's career on the likelihood of remaining in the job or obtaining a better job after a year. I find no effect, suggesting that individual supervisors are not sufficient to overcome systemic factors that may disadvantage any particular group.

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  • 2022-04-12
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  • 2022-07-07
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