Public Transfers and Domestic Violence: The Roles of Private Information and Spousal Control

Bobonis, Gustavo J.; M, Gonzalez-Brenes; Castro, Roberto

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“…Microfinance; Sisters for Life 10 sessions around gender and life skillsSouth AfricaPoorest women in communities, identified via participatory wealth ranking; av. age 418 clusters randomly allocated into intervention or control; main group-matched control of women 860* Young women [14–34,37] less likely to have unprotected sex with non-spousal partner (a.R.R. 0.76)* Reduction of IPV by 55% (a.R.R 0.45 [signif] amongst those directly involved)Gupta et al [55]VSLA for women; 8 couples dialogue sessionsIvory CoastWomen; av.…”

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“…All focused exclusively on women’s self-reported experiences of IPV, without consideration of HIV outcomes, with four from Latin America and one from Kenya. Two analyses focused on Mexico’s Oportunidades, which is a conditional cash transfer linked to accessing health and education services [37,38]; one focused on Bono de Desarrollo Humano (B.D.H), a state-run unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador [35]; and one focused on a humanitarian relief intervention in Ecuador, which operated for six months [75]. The final study was of an unconditional cash transfer called ‘GiveDirectly’ run by an NGO in rural Kenya, which provided either a lump sum or regular transfers of a smaller amount over nine months [39].…”

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“…Study quality was generally high with randomised designs in Kenya and Ecuador [35,36,39]. Two studies, both from Mexico, were cross-sectional in design [37,38]. …”

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A global comprehensive review of economic interventions to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV risk behaviours

Gibbs

Jacobson²,

Wilson³

2017

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Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV are co-occurring global epidemics, with similar root causes of gender and economic inequalities. Economic interventions have become a central approach to preventing IPV and HIV.Objective/Methods: We undertook a comprehensive scoping review of published evaluations of economic interventions that sought to prevent IPV and/or HIV risk behaviours.Results: Forty-five separate analyses of interventions met our criteria. Broadly, unconditional cash transfer interventions showed either flat or positive outcomes; economic strengthening interventions had mixed outcomes, with some negative, flat and positive results reported; interventions combining economic strengthening and gender transformative interventions tended to have positive outcomes.Conclusions: The review highlighted a number of gaps. Specifically, there were limited studies evaluating the impact of economic interventions on female sex workers, young women, and men. In addition, there were missed opportunities, with many evaluations only reporting either IPV- or HIV-related outcomes, rather than both, despite overlaps.

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“…Conforme os referidos autores, a principal razão disso está no decréscimo da dependência financeira da mulher em relação ao homem. Por outro lado, Bloch e Rao (2002) e Bobonis et al (2013) revelam que o incremento na renda da mulher tende a aumentar a violência. O princípio básico é que o homem utiliza a violência doméstica como um instrumento de barganha para extrair recursos da esposa.…”

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Programa Bolsa Família e violência doméstica contra a mulher no Brasil

Moreira¹,

Mattos²,

Teixeira³

et al. 2016

Estud. Econ.

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ResumoA violência contra as mulheres implica custos diretos e indiretos ao indivíduo, à família e à sociedade, atingindo principalmente as classes de baixa renda. Diante dessa realidade, o presente estudo procurou analisar como uma política pública de transferência de renda condicionada -Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) é capaz de influenciar tal fenô-meno. Os resultados encontrados apresentam evidências de que o PBF possui efeito de aumentar a violência contra a mulher. Ademais, aquelas domiciliadas no meio rural, com baixa escolaridade e com rendimentos relativamente menores aos do cônjuge são as que merecem maior atenção, uma vez que este grupo possui maior risco de sofrer violência. Como sugestão, as políticas públicas deveriam expandir a condicionalidade da saúde para a mulher por meio de ações educativas, como o acompanhamento da situação intrafamiliar, que é fornecido pela assistência social do Serviço de Proteção e Atendimento Integral à Família -PAIF. Palavras-ChaveAvaliação de Políticas Públicas. Programa Bolsa Família. Violência intrafamiliar. AbstractViolence against women involves direct and indirect costs to the individual, the family and society, affecting mainly the poor. Given this, the present study sought to examine how public policy of conditional cash transfers -Bolsa Família Program (BFP) is able to influence this phenomenon. The results indicate that the BFP has the effect of increasing violence against women. Thereby, those who live in rural areas with low education and lower earnings than the spouse are more likely to suffer physical abuse. It is believed

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“…7 This sociological literature has long recognized the tendency for higher suicide rates, for both men and women, to be associated with increased equality across the sexes. It emphasizes how increased opportunities for women can accentuate tensions and marital discord within households, by challenging traditional roles, increasing the importance of negotiation and raising the potential for conflict.…”

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Suicide and Property Rights in India

Anderson¹,

Genicot²

2014

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This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, we show that better property rights for women are associated with a decrease in the difference between female and male suicide rates, but an increase in both male and female suicides. We conjecture that increasing female property rights increased conflict within household and this increased conflict resulted in more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining with asymmetric information and costly conflict is consistent with these ˝findings.Siwan Anderson UBC

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Public Transfers and Domestic Violence: The Roles of Private Information and Spousal Control

Cited by 200 publications

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A global comprehensive review of economic interventions to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV risk behaviours

A global comprehensive review of economic interventions to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV risk behaviours

Programa Bolsa Família e violência doméstica contra a mulher no Brasil

Suicide and Property Rights in India

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