How does economic empowerment affect women's risk of intimate partner violence in low and middle income countries? A systematic review of published evidence

Vyas, Seema; Watts, Charlotte

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“…Thus, the hypothesis of Vyas and Watts (2009), stating that women entering the labor market in regions where it is not common for women to work outside their home are more prone to violence due to their "pioneer role," cannot be confirmed.…”

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Does Women’s Labor Force Participation Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Jordan

Lenze

Klasen

2016

Feminist Economics

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Enhancing women's labor force participation is seen as a way to promote their empowerment and improve their well-being and that of their children. The empirical literature on the relationship between women's employment status and domestic violence is less clear-cut. Using quantitative data from Jordan in 2007, this study explores the effect of women's employment, as measured by their participation in paid work outside the home, on reported domestic violence, controlling for the potential endogeneity of women's employment, which might bias the relationship between employment and domestic violence. Without taking endogeneity into account, the regression results suggest that a woman's participation in paid work enhances violence by her husband. After controlling for endogeneity, these results turn out to be insignificant, which suggests that women's work status has no causal influence on marital violence. Differentiating between various types of domestic violence provides weak evidence that women's employment lowers sexual violence. KEYWORDSWomen's work, violence against women, bargaining models JEL-Codes:: D63, J16, J12

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“…In recognising how poverty shapes IPV and HIV-vulnerability, there has been significant research around using economic interventions to prevent HIV and IPV [6,22–24]. Broadly there are three conceptual approaches.…”

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“…A third approach focuses on supporting those targeted to develop their own economic assets through either extending savings and loans systems to poor populations (e.g. microfinance) or providing vocational training [22]. A subset of these include gender transformative programming at the same time as economic strengthening [6].…”

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“…Currently there exist a number of reviews of this evidence base, but these have been limited in scope. Reviews have focused only on economic interventions [22], or only on HIV outcomes or IPV outcomes, or have been of limited geographical scope [6,24,25]. None have sought to review any economic interventions including combined economic and gender transformative interventions and include HIV and/or IPV as outcomes.…”

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A global comprehensive review of economic interventions to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV risk behaviours

Gibbs

Jacobson²,

Wilson³

2017

Global Health Action

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Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV are co-occurring global epidemics, with similar root causes of gender and economic inequalities. Economic interventions have become a central approach to preventing IPV and HIV.Objective/Methods: We undertook a comprehensive scoping review of published evaluations of economic interventions that sought to prevent IPV and/or HIV risk behaviours.Results: Forty-five separate analyses of interventions met our criteria. Broadly, unconditional cash transfer interventions showed either flat or positive outcomes; economic strengthening interventions had mixed outcomes, with some negative, flat and positive results reported; interventions combining economic strengthening and gender transformative interventions tended to have positive outcomes.Conclusions: The review highlighted a number of gaps. Specifically, there were limited studies evaluating the impact of economic interventions on female sex workers, young women, and men. In addition, there were missed opportunities, with many evaluations only reporting either IPV- or HIV-related outcomes, rather than both, despite overlaps.

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“…Com relação aos determinantes, muitos procuram analisar as características domiciliares e socioeconômicas que contribuem para maior incidência da violência doméstica (JEWKES et al, 2002;FIELD;CAETANO, 2003;VYAS;WATTS, 2009). Os principais resultados desses estudos apontam que o nível de pobreza do domicílio e o fato de o cônjuge estar desempregado são importantes características domiciliares, uma vez que homens, ao viverem na pobreza, sentem-se frustrados por não conseguirem o padrão de vida desejado e acabam por agredir suas parceiras.…”

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Programa Bolsa Família e violência doméstica contra a mulher no Brasil

Moreira¹,

Mattos²,

Teixeira³

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Estud. Econ.

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ResumoA violência contra as mulheres implica custos diretos e indiretos ao indivíduo, à família e à sociedade, atingindo principalmente as classes de baixa renda. Diante dessa realidade, o presente estudo procurou analisar como uma política pública de transferência de renda condicionada -Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) é capaz de influenciar tal fenô-meno. Os resultados encontrados apresentam evidências de que o PBF possui efeito de aumentar a violência contra a mulher. Ademais, aquelas domiciliadas no meio rural, com baixa escolaridade e com rendimentos relativamente menores aos do cônjuge são as que merecem maior atenção, uma vez que este grupo possui maior risco de sofrer violência. Como sugestão, as políticas públicas deveriam expandir a condicionalidade da saúde para a mulher por meio de ações educativas, como o acompanhamento da situação intrafamiliar, que é fornecido pela assistência social do Serviço de Proteção e Atendimento Integral à Família -PAIF. Palavras-ChaveAvaliação de Políticas Públicas. Programa Bolsa Família. Violência intrafamiliar. AbstractViolence against women involves direct and indirect costs to the individual, the family and society, affecting mainly the poor. Given this, the present study sought to examine how public policy of conditional cash transfers -Bolsa Família Program (BFP) is able to influence this phenomenon. The results indicate that the BFP has the effect of increasing violence against women. Thereby, those who live in rural areas with low education and lower earnings than the spouse are more likely to suffer physical abuse. It is believed

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How does economic empowerment affect women's risk of intimate partner violence in low and middle income countries? A systematic review of published evidence

Cited by 448 publications

References 57 publications

Does Women’s Labor Force Participation Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Jordan

Does Women’s Labor Force Participation Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Jordan

A global comprehensive review of economic interventions to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV risk behaviours

Programa Bolsa Família e violência doméstica contra a mulher no Brasil

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