The endogeneity of domestic violence: understanding women empowerment through autonomy
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10361-68572016-12-06T03:26:33Z The endogeneity of domestic violence: understanding women empowerment through autonomy Fakir, Adnan M.S. Anjum, Anika Bushra, Fabiha Nawar, Nabilah Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University Domestic violence Autonomy South Asia Bangladesh This article was published in World Development Perspectives [©2016 Elsevier Ltd.] and the definite version is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292916300431 The article website is at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-development-perspectives Women’s autonomy is known to incite intimate partner violence (IPV) in developing countries. We argue for the endogeneity of women’s autonomy with IPV, which is often ignored in the existing literature, for understanding the causal association. Using the Bangladesh Demography and Health Survey (2007), we isolate the effect of autonomy on IPV taking into account the possible endogeneity using instrument variables and special regressor estimations, proposing the special regressor as a more reliable approach to estimating binary choice models with discrete endogenous regressors. Our study finds increased women’s autonomy to lead to higher incidents of IPV for a South Asian patriarchal society such as Bangladesh. Thereby, policies catered towards women empowerment by increasing women’s autonomy should concurrently focus on other determinants of IPV. Undue male controlling behaviour, witnessing inter-parental abuse as a child and early marriage are also found to aggravate IPV. Hence there should be simultaneous programmes that aim to relax male controlling behaviour over women, provide counselling for those who have witnessed inter-parental abuse as a child, and laws prohibiting child marriage, still prevalent in South Asian societies, should be reinforced. These findings have strong policy implications suggesting the dual nature of improving women’s autonomy in empowering women while aggravating IPV. Published 2016-11-16T04:58:22Z 2016-11-16T04:58:22Z 2016-10 Article Fakir, A. M. S., Anjum, A., Bushra, F., & Nawar, N. (2016). The endogeneity of domestic violence: understanding women empowerment through autonomy. World Development Perspectives, 02, 34–42. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2016.09.002 2452-2929 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/6857 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2016.09.002 en http://ac.els-cdn.com/S2452292916300431/1-s2.0-S2452292916300431-main.pdf?_tid=a029173a-abb5-11e6-be33-00000aab0f6c&acdnat=1479270904_f6fb9790b0680f92d72918faf4963a7b © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. |
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This article was published in World Development Perspectives [©2016 Elsevier Ltd.] and the definite version is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292916300431 The article website is at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-development-perspectives |
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Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University Fakir, Adnan M.S. Anjum, Anika Bushra, Fabiha Nawar, Nabilah |
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