Health, Human Capital, and Domestic Violence

Nicholas Papageorge, Gwyn C. Pauley, Mardge Cohen, Tracey E. Wilson, Barton H. Hamilton and Robert A. Pollak

Journal of Human Resources, 2021, vol. 56, issue 4, 997-1030

Abstract: We treat health as a form of human capital and hypothesize that women with more human capital face stronger incentives to make costly investments with future payoffs, such as avoiding abusive partners and reducing drug use. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the unanticipated introduction of an HIV treatment, HAART, which dramatically improved HIV+ women’s health. We find that after the introduction of HAART HIV+ women who experienced increases in expected longevity exhibited a decrease in domestic violence of 15 percent and in drug use of 15–20 percent. We rule out confounding via secular trends using a control group of healthier women.

JEL-codes: I1 J12 J24 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
Note: DOI: 10.3368/jhr.56.4.1115-7543R5
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Working Paper: Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence (2017)
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