Federal EITC has unexpected result, researchers say – it decreases domestic violence
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In “Intimate Partner Violence and Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit,” published in November in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Law and Economics, researchers from the University of Connecticut and City University of New York found the earned income tax credit decreased the prevalence of physical and sexual violence among unmarried, low-educated women by 9.73%. Further, it decreased the counts of such violence by 21%.
The Economic and Social Committee of the Valencian Community has awarded one of its 2025 Doctoral Thesis Awards to Iluminada Vallet Bellmunt, a lecturer in the Department of Business Administration and Marketing at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló. The thesis, entitled "The resilience of independent retail: a model of antecedents and consequences", was supervised by Marisa Flor and Víctor del Corte and tutored by Teresa Vallet-Bellmunt.
The thesis, defended in December 2024 in the Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Marketing, explores the factors that foster organisational resilience in small independent retailers and analyses how this capacity enhances innovation and business performance. The results highlight that the individual resilience of the owner and the entrepreneurial orientation of the business are two of the factors that drive organisational resilience.
In addition to the resilience and adaptability of the people who lead the businesses, organisational resilience is also influenced by the characteristics of the work team, the organisational structure, external networks and environmental conditions. The methodology was based on a closed-ended questionnaire, with 150 validated responses. The distribution of the businesses surveyed was 26.74% from Alicante, 11.42% from Castelló de la Plana and 61.84% from Valencia, representing different sectors such as food, drugstores and perfumeries, flowers, jewellery and watches, home, fashion, leisure, stationery and health.