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

2013

287 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Safety Research

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f9e6c0ac334c1a657569611b2d292769693f87df

Citations in the corpus

• Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers (2016, unknown): “20 Domestic violence has been studied in relation to targeted cash transfers as another measure of empowerment (or rather lack thereof; Angelucci, 2008; Bobonis et al., 2013).”
• THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT OF UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS TO THE POOR: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA (2016, unknown): “…be spent on temptation goods and thereby decrease welfare in the long run; they could lower labor supply due to their income effect (Cesarini et al. 2015); or they could lead to conflict within the family or community (Bobonis, Gonzalez-Brenes, and Castro 2013; Hidrobo, Peterman, and Heise 2016).”
• Transfers, Behavior Change Communication, and Intimate Partner Violence: Postprogram Evidence from Rural Bangladesh (2019, unknown): “While this effect could be reversed if men use IPV to either extract 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…”
• Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health (2014, unknown): “Recent work in economics has shown that changes in female bargaining threat points has the potential to reduce violence against women (Stevenson and Wolfers, 2006; Aizer, 2010; Hidrobo and Fernald, 2013; Bobonis et al., 2013).”
• A Mixed-Method Review of Cash Transfers and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2018, unknown): “…hypothesize reasons for potential increases in IPV, including: (a) A partner seeking to extract resources/CT from his wife (mentioned by one study: Bobonis, Gonzalez-Brenes, and Castro 2013, however not tested directly); and (b) male backlash, specifically due to partners feeling threatened by…”
• For Better or for Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey (2018, unknown): “As a result, women may become more vulnerable to mistreatment (Bloch and Rao 2002; Eswaran and Malhotra 2011; Bobonis et al. 2013).”
• Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women (2019, unknown): “2 percentage points (Bobonis et al., 2013), and that a one standard deviation in civil conflict intensity in a respondent’s place of residence raises physical IPV by 5.”
• Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017, unknown): “…between female income and abuse, Vyas and Watts (2009) show that the results are heterogenous across countries and point to differences in contextual factors as a likely reason, in particular whether it is common for women to be employed or not (see also Angelucci (2008) and Bobonis et al. (2013)).”