Domestic violence, decision-making power, and female employment in Colombia

Fajardo-González, Johanna

doi:10.1007/s11150-020-09491-1

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“…Additional analytic refinements further strengthened the observed impact of DV on female sterilization. After implementing an IV approach to account for the endogeneity of DV (Fajardo-Gonzalez, n.d. ), we observed a 6.4 percentage point increase ( p < .001) in female sterilization among DV victims, which is 18% higher than the 35.7% sterilization rate of non-victims.…”

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Domestic Violence and Sterilization Skew in India: An Instrumental Variable Analysis

Patil

Luck

Yoon

et al. 2020

J Interpers Violence

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The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of domestic violence in ever-married women in India and analyze the relationship between domestic violence and use of female sterilization as contraception. We analyzed data from the National Family Health Survey 2005–2006 (NFHS3). The Domestic Violence Module of the survey included abuse experiences and reproductive health outcomes of ever-married women aged 15 to 49 years ( n = 69,704). The main outcome of interest was female sterilization and domestic violence experience was the main independent variable. Covariates in our multivariate regression models were guided by the socioecological model for domestic abuse. We estimated a reference linear probability model for the dichotomous outcome. We also employed an instrumental variables procedure to strengthen causal inference under such potential sources of bias as measurement error in reporting domestic violence and omitted variables. The reference model showed an increase of 2.1 percentage points ( p < .001) in the probability of female sterilization associated with exposure to domestic violence. After correcting the estimate for the measurement error and omitted variable bias, we found that domestic violence was associated with an increase in female sterilization by 6.4 percentage points ( p < .001), which is 18% higher than the rate of sterilization among non-victims. In conclusion, our findings imply that domestic violence may lead abuse victims to opt for female sterilization as contraception. Domestic violence is a significant obstacle to efficient contraceptive use. Programs directed toward violence prevention should work conjointly with family planning programs in India.

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Domestic Violence and Sterilization Skew in India: An Instrumental Variable Analysis

Patil

Luck

Yoon

et al. 2020

J Interpers Violence

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“…It could also be that women engage in labor market activities to increase their economic independence with the aim of exiting the abusive relationship one day. This mechanism can lead to a positive association between domestic violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment, which has been showed recently by colleague [35] for Columbia, for example. When empirically assessing the impact of female employment on domestic violence without taking into account this kind of endogeneity, the protective role of formal employment would be underestimated.…”

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The association between women’s economic participation and physical and/or sexual domestic violence against women: A case study for Turkey

Greulich

Dasré

2022

PLoS ONE

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We test in how far women’s economic participation can be associated with physical and/or sexual domestic violence against women in Turkey, by mobilizing the Survey “National Research on Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey” (wave 2014). Several studies found that economically active women have a similar, if not a higher risk of experiencing domestic violence than inactive women in Turkey, as well as in other emerging countries. We challenge these findings for Turkey by distinguishing between formal and informal labor market activities as well as between women who do not work because their partner does not allow them to and women who are inactive for other reasons. To increase the control for endogeneity in this cross-sectional setting, we apply an IV-approach based on cluster averages. We find that, while overall employment for women cannot be associated with a lower risk of experiencing domestic violence for women in Turkey, those women who participate in the formal labor market and those women who contribute at least the same as their partner to household income are less exposed to physical and/or sexual domestic violence than their counterparts. Distinguishing between formal and informal employment is thus important when it comes to investigate the association between women’s economic activity and domestic violence. This is especially the case in a country like Turkey, which currently undergoes important socio-economic changes and where women in formal and informal employment have therefore very different socioeconomic backgrounds.

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“…Although global estimates suggest one billion children aged 2–17 years experienced past-year violence [ 11 ], including at least one in two children in Asia, Africa, and North America, less is known about employer violence, the violence children experience in and around workplaces, and about the violence they may experience for either working or not working. Currently, most of the evidence on links between work and violence centres on adult women’s work and experiences of violence, particularly intimate partner violence [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ]. In 2006, the UN Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children described how forms of child labour and hazardous work increased the risk of violence and also highlighted the invisibility of prevalence estimates for violence experienced by children in the workplace [ 18 ].…”

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The Epidemiology of Young People’s Work and Experiences of Violence in Nine Countries: Evidence from the Violence against Children Surveys

Bhatia

Parvez

Pearlman

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Globally, 497 million young people (15–24 years) are in the labour force. The current research on work and violence indicates reciprocal links across the life course. This study draws on data from 35,723 young people aged 13–24 years in the Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS) in nine countries to describe the epidemiology of work in order to explore associations between (1) current work and violence and (2) childhood violence and work in a hazardous site in young adulthood. The prevalence of past-year work among 13–24-year-olds was highest in Malawi: 82.4% among young men and 79.7% among young women. In most countries, young women were more likely to be working in family or domestic dwellings (range: 23.5–60.6%) compared to men (range: 8.0–39.0%), while men were more likely to be working on a farm. Work in a hazardous site was higher among young men compared to women in every country. Among children aged 13–17 years, we found significant positive associations between past-year work and violence among girls in three countries (aORs between 2.14 and 3.07) and boys in five countries (aORs 1.52 to 3.06). Among young people aged 18–24 years, we found significant positive associations among young women in five countries (aORs 1.46 to 2.61) and among young men in one country (aOR 2.62). Associations between childhood violence and past-year work in a hazardous site among 18–24-year-olds were significant in one country among girls and in three countries among boys. Continued efforts are needed to prevent hazardous work, improve work environments, and integrate violence prevention efforts into workplaces.

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Domestic violence, decision-making power, and female employment in Colombia

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Domestic Violence and Sterilization Skew in India: An Instrumental Variable Analysis

Domestic Violence and Sterilization Skew in India: An Instrumental Variable Analysis

The association between women’s economic participation and physical and/or sexual domestic violence against women: A case study for Turkey

The Epidemiology of Young People’s Work and Experiences of Violence in Nine Countries: Evidence from the Violence against Children Surveys

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