Marital violence, human development and women’s property status in India

Panda, Pradeep Kumar; Agarwal, Bina

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.01.009

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“…Following the narrative provided in the earlier sections, the discussion focuses on the role of women's work status influencing the probability of experiencing violence. Most of the other variables have already been tested before in other studies on domestic violence (Vijayendra Rao 1997;Shireen Jejeebhoy 1998;Dallan F. Flake 2005;Pradeep Panda and Bina Agarwal 2005). Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses.…”

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Does Women’s Labor Force Participation Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Jordan

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2016

Feminist Economics

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Enhancing women's labor force participation is seen as a way to promote their empowerment and improve their well-being and that of their children. The empirical literature on the relationship between women's employment status and domestic violence is less clear-cut. Using quantitative data from Jordan in 2007, this study explores the effect of women's employment, as measured by their participation in paid work outside the home, on reported domestic violence, controlling for the potential endogeneity of women's employment, which might bias the relationship between employment and domestic violence. Without taking endogeneity into account, the regression results suggest that a woman's participation in paid work enhances violence by her husband. After controlling for endogeneity, these results turn out to be insignificant, which suggests that women's work status has no causal influence on marital violence. Differentiating between various types of domestic violence provides weak evidence that women's employment lowers sexual violence. KEYWORDSWomen's work, violence against women, bargaining models JEL-Codes:: D63, J16, J12

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Section: Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Women’s Labor Force Participation Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Jordan

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2016

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“…Proposed as a key empowerment strategy, increasing women’s property ownership is considered to enhance women’s livelihood options, conferring greater security on them and providing them with somewhere to go and immediate escape options from domestic violence [42]. For example, in a study carried out in Kerala, many women who faced violence and who owned property outside of the marital home were able to leave the situation [43].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physical partner violence, women’s economic status and help-seeking behaviour in Dar es Salaam and Mbeya, Tanzania

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Mbwambo

2017

Global Health Action

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Background: Women’s responses to partner violence are influenced by a complex constellation of factors including: psychological attachment to the partner; context of the abuse; and structural factors, all of which shape available options for women outside of the relationship. Objective: To describe women’s responses to physical partner violence; and to understand the role of women’s economic resources on their responses. Methods: Cross-sectional data from Dar es Salaam and Mbeya, Tanzania. Multivariate logistic regression was used to explore the relationship between women’s economic resources and their responses to violence. Results: In both sites, among physically abused women, over one-half experienced severe violence; approximately two-thirds had disclosed the violence; and approximately 40% had sought help. Abused women were more likely to have sought help from health services, the police and religious leaders in Dar es Salaam, and from local leaders in Mbeya. Economic resources did not facilitate women’s ability to leave violent partners in Dar es Salaam. In Mbeya, women who jointly owned capital assets were less likely to have left. In both sites, women’s sole ownership of capital assets facilitated help-seeking. Conclusion: Although support services are being scaled-up in Tanzania, efforts are needed to increase the acceptability of accessing such services.

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“…Work by Agarwal and Panda in India on marital violence (Panda and Agarwal, 2005;Agarwal and Panda, 2007), found more consistent results when women owned tangible economic resources (land and/or house). The ownership of land and/or a house by women correlated to both reduced risk of violence in the first instance, and with women's ability to exit and remain free from violent relationships.…”

Section: Propertymentioning

confidence: 89%