Post-marital residence and female wellbeing

Umair Khalil (), Sulagna Mookerjee and Arijit Ray ()
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Arijit Ray: Cleveland State University

Journal of Population Economics, 2024, vol. 37, issue 2, No 14, 31 pages

Abstract: Abstract Post-marital residence norms govern where a married couple resides after marriage: with the husband’s family, the wife’s family, or independently. We study whether these arrangements affect female autonomy and domestic violence outcomes in four Southeast Asian countries—Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar—where a sizable proportion of the population practices each type of marital residence. Compared to independently residing families within the same province-country, married women residing with the husband’s family have worse autonomy outcomes, whereas those residing with members of their own natal families fare substantially better. This aligns well with an anthropological understanding of how gendered patterns of influence in a social system might potentially interact with female empowerment. On the other hand, we observe that married women in both types of non-independent households suffer from less frequent domestic abuse compared to women residing independently, likely due to a deterrence effect from the presence of other family members.

Keywords: Family structure; Women’s empowerment; Southeast asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J13 J16 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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