Domestic violence and women's autonomy in developing countries: theory and evidence

By M. Eswaran, Nisha Malhotra. 2011

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Women’s Access to Labor Market Opportunities, Control of Household Resources, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh (2014, unknown): “Theoretical household bargaining models show how a woman’s access to economic opportunities can either decrease or increase violence, depending on her initial level of bargaining power (Tauchen, Witte, and Long 1991; Rao 1997; Eswaran and Malhotra 2011).”
A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2018, background): “However, variants of the bargaining model also predict that an increase in women’s resources may put a woman at increased risk of IPV if men feel threatened and use violence to reassert authority in the relationship (Eswaran and Malhotra 2011).”
The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights (2012, background): “Eswaran and Malhotra (2011), in contrast, find that more female autonomy increases domestic violence in India, as men use violence to increase their bargaining power.”
Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, unknown): “More generally, resources can be predicted to increase the risk of violence for women if their initial bargaining power is low (Tauchen et al., 1991; Eswaran and Malhotra, 2011; Heath, 2012).”
The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador (2016, unknown): “However, when violence is either instrumental and used to control the victim’s behavior or allocation of resources within the household ( Eswaran and Malhotra 2011; Tauchen, Witte, and Long 1991 , or extractive and used to extract monetary transfers from the victim or her family ( Bloch and Rao…”
Transfers, Behavior Change Communication, and Intimate Partner Violence: Postprogram Evidence from Rural Bangladesh (2019, background): “…resources from their partners (Bloch & Rao, 2002; Bobonis et al., 2013) or ensure that resource allocation is aligned with their preferences (Eswaran & Malhotra, 2011), or if men increase violence as backlash against the change in power dynamics (Chin, 2012), the literature has found…”