Cash transfers and intimate partner violence (IPV) in low- and middle-income settings: A joint research agenda to inform and practice

Amber Peterman, Shalini Roy, Melissa Hidrobo, Lucy Billings, Tia Palermo, Clare Barrington, Meghna Ranganathan, Ana Maria Buller, Lori Heise, Pace Phillips and Ellen Bates-Jeffreys

No June 2021, Project notes from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Over the last five years, there has been increasing interest from global stakeholders in the relationship between cash transfers and gender-based violence, and in particular, intimate partner violence (IPV). Interest has grown both within the development and humanitarian spaces, although empirical research is mainly concentrated in the former. A mixed-method review paper published in 2018 found that, across 22 quantitative or qualitative studies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the majority (73%) showed that cash decreased IPV; however, two studies showed mixed effects, and several others showed heterogenous impacts (Buller et al. 2018). A more recent meta-analysis of 14 experimental and quasiexperimental cash transfer studies found average decreases in physical/sexual IPV (4 percentage points (pp)), emotional IPV (2 pp) and controlling behaviors (4 pp) (Baranov et al. 2021). A feature of this literature is the high representation of evaluations from Latin America, primarily government conditional cash transfer programs. In addition, programming was generally focused on poverty-related objectives, and none of the programming was explicitly designed to affect IPV or violence outcomes more broadly.

Keywords: research methods; gender; policies; social protection; developing countries; cash transfers; domestic violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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