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| Title: | | Marital violence and women's employment and property status: evidence from North Indian villages  |
| Authors: | | Bhattacharya, Manasi Bedi, Arjun S. Chhachhi, Amrita |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4361 |
| Abstract: | | Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an ambiguous picture. Motivated by this ambiguity, this paper draws on testimonies of men and women and data gathered from rural Uttar Pradesh, to examine the effect of women's employment and asset status as measured by their participation in paid work and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are associated with sharp reductions in marital violence. |
| Subjects: | | Domestic violence employment status property ownership India |
| JEL: | | J12 J15 J16 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009092819 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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