Domestic Violence, Employment, and Divorce*

Bowlus, Audra J.; Seitz, Shannon

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2354.2006.00408.x

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“…Availability of such information would help us to understand the forces driving female risk of victimization. In addition, it would shed light on the intergenerational e¤ects of family patterns on the transmission of abuse in the long run, given the evidence that domestic violence as a child dramatically increases the odds that men become abusers (Bowlus and Seitz, 2006). Also, it would allow to gauge the extent of assortative mating on the basis of violence in the partners'families of origin (Pollak, 2004).…”

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“…Laws and services devised to empower women and encourage men to value an equal partner are likely to be important steps towards abuse reduction (Coleman and Strauss, 1986). Additionally, as long as more children grow up in nontraditional households with working mothers (Nock, 2001), this will induce an intergenerational transmission of nontraditional gender patterns (Pollak, 2004;Bowlus and Seitz, 2006).…”

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Employment and the Risk of Domestic Violence: Does the Breadwinner's Gender Matter?

Alonso‐Borrego

Carrasco

2016

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This paper studies the e¤ect on the risk of female victimization of the employment statuses of both partners, conditional on income and a set of sociodemographic characteristics. Using cross-sectional data from the Violence Against Women (VAW) surveys for Spain in 1999, 2002, and 2006, we address the potential endogeneity of employment and income variables using a multivariate probit model. We exploit geographical-level information on employment and unemployment rates by gender and age, and on household income, to identify the parameters of the model. Our estimation results, for which proper account of the endogeneity problem proves critical, show that male partner employment plays a major role in the risk of physical violence, while female employment only lowers the risk of violence when her partner is employed too. The lowest risk of physical abuse appears for more egalitarian couples in which both partners are employed.JEL classi…cation: J12, D19, J16, C25, C26.

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Employment and the Risk of Domestic Violence: Does the Breadwinner's Gender Matter?

Alonso‐Borrego

Carrasco

2016

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“…The ones closest to our objectives are due to Tauchen et al (1991) and Bowlus and Seitz (2006). Both consider domestic violence as the outcome of family dynamics and negotiation.…”

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Health Care Costs of Domestic Violence Against Women - Evidence from Portugal

Barros

Lisboa²,

Cerejo

et al. 2008

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Abstract:Our main objective is to estimate the additional health care costs to the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS) due to domestic violence against women. We collected information through a survey addressed to health care centres' female users. Both victims and non-victims of violence were inquired. We estimate costs according to five different groups -consultation costs, health care treatment and therapeutic costs, costs of complementary and diagnostic exams, drugs costs and transport costs. The estimations have been split into two perspectives -the NHS perspective (public perspective) and private perspective of inquired women (out of pocket payments).The timeframe of our calculations is one year, referring to all costs generated by domestic violence situations in the last twelve months. Essentially costs were estimated through the product of total number of episodes by the average estimated price per episode. Additionally, for the private costs, we also considered the costs originated by income losses, the opportunity cost of time spent on health care treatments and the work inability caused by sickness.The results suggest that the victims of domestic violence's additional demand for health care is valued €140 per annum, that is about 22% higher than health care costs of non-victims. These results match those of similar studies for the United States, taking account of per capita differences in health care spending. A large proportion (90%) of the additional costs associated with domestic violence is supported by the NHS, where consultations and drugs are the most important contributors of such costs. Health consequences of domestic violence result from losses in quality of life and worst health status of victims and correspond to additional permanent economic costs of domestic violence episodes.

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“…The new evidence presented by this study is consistent with two forces, related and not mutually exclusive, that can impinge on the incidence of violence. First is the possibility of marital selection: couples with aggressive partners may be more likely to dissolve (Bowlus and Seitz 2006). The dynamic selection of couples remaining in union based on male partners' potential for aggression is consistent with both the decrease in the incidence of violence among couples remaining in union as well as with a reduction in the need of the CCT program to help protect women remaining in union against IPV.…”

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“…An extensive literature documents that increases in a woman's relative wage, by increasing her bargaining power within the household as a result of an improvement in her outside options, can lead to lower levels of violence (Aizer 2010;Bowlus and Seitz 2006). An improvement in women's relative income-generating opportunities in Mexico over the past decade may help explain the strong decline in the incidence of violence.…”

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Conditional Cash Transfers for Women and Spousal Violence: Evidence of the Long-Term Relationship from the Oportunidades Program in Rural Mexico

Bobonis¹,

Castro²,

Morales

2015

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Domestic Violence, Employment, and Divorce*

Cited by 152 publications

References 13 publications

Employment and the Risk of Domestic Violence: Does the Breadwinner's Gender Matter?

Employment and the Risk of Domestic Violence: Does the Breadwinner's Gender Matter?

Health Care Costs of Domestic Violence Against Women - Evidence from Portugal

Conditional Cash Transfers for Women and Spousal Violence: Evidence of the Long-Term Relationship from the Oportunidades Program in Rural Mexico

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