Women's empowerment and domestic abuse: Experimental evidence from Vietnam

Erwin Bulte and Robert Lensink

European Economic Review, 2019, vol. 115, issue C, 172-191

Abstract: Intimate partner violence is an important global health problem that policy makers seek to address by a variety of interventions, including efforts to promote “women's empowerment.” We use data from a randomized control trial in Vietnam and find that this strategy may backfire: women who participated in a gender and entrepreneurship training program suffer more frequent abuse than women in the control group. We conjecture that increased female income is the mechanism linking the training program to domestic violence. We also make a methodological contribution and show that the outcomes of our impact analysis depend on how we measure intimate partner violence.

Keywords: Spousal violence; Gender training; Domestic abuse (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 D74 I10 J12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.03.003

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