Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru

In many developing countries, access to justice remains unequal, especially for women. What are the implications of this inequality for gender-based violence and investment in children? This paper provides evidence from Peru’s women’s justice cente...

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Main Authors:	Sviatschi, Maria Micaela, Trako, Iva
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACCESS TO EDUCATION VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/400871618254312766/Gender-Violence-Enforcement-and-Human-Capital-Evidence-from-Women-39-s-Justice-Centers-in-Peru http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35446

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spelling	okr-10986-354462022-09-20T00:09:11Z Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru Sviatschi, Maria Micaela Trako, Iva GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACCESS TO EDUCATION VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN In many developing countries, access to justice remains unequal, especially for women. What are the implications of this inequality for gender-based violence and investment in children? This paper provides evidence from Peru’s women’s justice centers (WJCs), which are specialized institutions that provide police, medical, and legal services to reduce gender-based violence. Examining the gradual rollout of WJCs across districts and villages, the study finds that the opening of a center reduces the incidence of gender-based violence, as measured by domestic violence, female deaths due to aggression, and hospitalizations due to mental health, by about 10 percent. This decrease in women’s exposure to violence has intergenerational effects: WJCs substantially increase human capital investments in children, raising enrollment, attendance, and test scores. The evidence suggests that these results are driven by an increase in enforcement against gender violence. After a WJC opens, there is an increase in reporting and prosecutions of gender-specific crimes. 2021-04-19T19:09:58Z 2021-04-19T19:09:58Z 2021-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/400871618254312766/Gender-Violence-Enforcement-and-Human-Capital-Evidence-from-Women-39-s-Justice-Centers-in-Peru http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35446 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9624 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Peru
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spellingShingle	GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACCESS TO EDUCATION VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Sviatschi, Maria Micaela Trako, Iva Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9624
description	In many developing countries, access to justice remains unequal, especially for women. What are the implications of this inequality for gender-based violence and investment in children? This paper provides evidence from Peru’s women’s justice centers (WJCs), which are specialized institutions that provide police, medical, and legal services to reduce gender-based violence. Examining the gradual rollout of WJCs across districts and villages, the study finds that the opening of a center reduces the incidence of gender-based violence, as measured by domestic violence, female deaths due to aggression, and hospitalizations due to mental health, by about 10 percent. This decrease in women’s exposure to violence has intergenerational effects: WJCs substantially increase human capital investments in children, raising enrollment, attendance, and test scores. The evidence suggests that these results are driven by an increase in enforcement against gender violence. After a WJC opens, there is an increase in reporting and prosecutions of gender-specific crimes.
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author	Sviatschi, Maria Micaela Trako, Iva
author_facet	Sviatschi, Maria Micaela Trako, Iva
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title	Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru
title_short	Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru
title_full	Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru
title_fullStr	Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru
title_full_unstemmed	Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru
title_sort	gender violence, enforcement, and human capital : evidence from women's justice centers in peru
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/400871618254312766/Gender-Violence-Enforcement-and-Human-Capital-Evidence-from-Women-39-s-Justice-Centers-in-Peru http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35446
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Gender Violence, Enforcement, and Human Capital : Evidence from Women's Justice Centers in Peru

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