Cash transfers and domestic violence

Melissa Hidrobo and Lia Fernald

Journal of Health Economics, 2013, vol. 32, issue 1, 304-319

Abstract: Violence against women is a major health and human rights problem yet there is little rigorous evidence as to how to reduce it. We take advantage of the randomized roll-out of Ecuador's cash transfer program to mothers to investigate how an exogenous increase in a woman's income affects domestic violence. We find that the effect of a cash transfer depends on a woman's education and on her education relative to her partner's. Our results show that for women with greater than primary school education a cash transfer significantly decreases psychological violence from her partner. For women with primary school education or less, however, the effect of a cash transfer depends on her education relative to her partner's. Specifically, the cash transfer significantly increases emotional violence in households where the woman's education is equal to or more than her partner's.

Keywords: Cash transfers; Domestic violence; Household bargaining models; Education; Women's income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 I10 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.11.002

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