JUE Insight: The Unintended Effect of Argentina’s Subsidized Homeownership Lottery Program on Intimate Partner Violence

Bruno Cardinale Lagomarsino and Martín Rossi

No 129, Working Papers from Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia

Abstract: We study a natural experiment in Argentina, where low-income women were selected through a lottery system to receive a house and a heavily subsidized long-term mortgage. We exploit the random assignment to estimate the causal link between subsidized homeownership programs and intimate partner violence (IPV). Our analysis utilizes administrative records of the population of women applicants to assess the impact of homeownership on IPV, differentiating between women under joint-ownership contracts with their partners and those under single-ownership contracts. We find that the program causes an increase in IPV for women under joint-ownership contracts and a decrease in IPV for women under single-ownership contracts. Our results highlight the importance of considering the design of subsidized homeownership programs and explicitly incorporating measures to facilitate exit from conflicting relationships.

Keywords: Household Economics; Single Parent; Spouse; Family Law; Homeownership; Subsidized Housing; Social Housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H31 J12 K36 R21 R28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2017-04, Revised 2023-11
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