Women's Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence

• Tác giả: S Anukriti
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 616.85 Miscellaneous diseases of nervous system and mental disorders
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC : World Bank, 2022
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 318318
• Chủ đề: 1. CONTRACEPTION; 2. FEMALE LEADERS; 3. INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; 4. POLITICAL REPRESENTATION; 5. WOMEN

Tóm tắt

Recent studies demonstrate that female leaders can improve gender-specific outcomes along multiple dimensions through better provision of public goods and legislative changes that benefit women. Using quasi-random exposure to female leaders elected to state legislatures in India, this paper shows that there may also be an unintended effect: an increase in rural women's reported experience of physical spousal abuse. We find that a plausible channel underlying this effect is an increase in women's modern contraceptive use-potentially resulting from improvements in public provision of health services-which leads to marital conflict, especially when the husband's son preference is stronger than the wife's.