Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence

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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Main Authors: Anukriti, S, Erten, Bilge, Mukherjee, Priya
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC : World Bank 2022
Subjects:
WOMEN
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
FEMALE LEADERS
CONTRACEPTION
PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES
MARRIAGE MARKET OUTCOMES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099524106292228358/IDU0aa36138b05fc2048740bd470c5bf4fd6275d
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spelling okr-10986-376302022-07-06T05:10:36Z Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence Anukriti, S Erten, Bilge Mukherjee, Priya WOMEN INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION FEMALE LEADERS CONTRACEPTION PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES MARRIAGE MARKET OUTCOMES 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. 2022-07-05T20:17:10Z 2022-07-05T20:17:10Z 2022-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099524106292228358/IDU0aa36138b05fc2048740bd470c5bf4fd6275d http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37630 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;10113 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC : World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia South Asia India
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language English
en_US
topic WOMEN
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
FEMALE LEADERS
CONTRACEPTION
PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES
MARRIAGE MARKET OUTCOMES
spellingShingle WOMEN
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
FEMALE LEADERS
CONTRACEPTION
PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES
MARRIAGE MARKET OUTCOMES
Anukriti, S
Erten, Bilge
Mukherjee, Priya
Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
geographic_facet South Asia
South Asia
India
relation Policy Research Working Paper;10113
description 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.
format Working Paper
author Anukriti, S
Erten, Bilge
Mukherjee, Priya
author_facet Anukriti, S
Erten, Bilge
Mukherjee, Priya
author_sort Anukriti, S
title Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
title_short Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
title_full Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
title_fullStr Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
title_full_unstemmed Women’s Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence
title_sort women’s political representation and intimate partner violence
publisher Washington, DC : World Bank
publishDate 2022
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099524106292228358/IDU0aa36138b05fc2048740bd470c5bf4fd6275d
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37630
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