Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
Recent studies demonstrate that female leaders can improve gender-specific outcomes along multiple dimensions through better provision of public goods and legislative changes that benefit women. Using quasi-random exposure to female leaders elected...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099524106292228358/IDU0aa36138b05fc2048740bd470c5bf4fd6275d http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37630 |
| Summary: | Recent studies demonstrate that
female leaders can improve gender-specific outcomes along
multiple dimensions through better provision of public goods
and legislative changes that benefit women. Using
quasi-random exposure to female leaders elected to state
legislatures in India, this paper shows that there may also
be an unintended effect: an increase in rural women’s
reported experience of physical spousal abuse. We find that
a plausible channel underlying this effect is an increase in
women’s modern contraceptive use—potentially resulting from
improvements in public provision of health services—which
leads to marital conflict, especially when the husband’s son
preference is stronger than the wife’s. |
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