Wife-Beating in a Rural South Indian Community

Vijayendra Rao

Center for Development Economics from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: This paper is based on a case-study of a community of potters in rural Karnataka in Souther India. It focuses on wife-beating and how it affects caloric allocations within the family using statistical and ethnographic methods. The paper shows that wife-beating is significantly associated with the payement of dowries that are perceived as inadequate. It is also affected by alcohol consumption of males in the family, female sterilization and the number of male children. Furthermore, the children of women who are beaten suffer by being allocated fewer calories tha other children with similar characteristics.

Keywords: INDIA; SOCIAL VALUES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 1995
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