Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46073 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5273
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of domestic violence over labor markets in an ethnically fragmented country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia excels in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence in the region. Anecdotal evidence and empirical evidence suggest that response to domestic violence is not homogeneous across different ethnic groups. Using information from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Bolivia, we examine the heterogeneous impacts of domestic violence over one of the key labor market outcomes such as employment. We employ a probabilistic decision model and treatment regression techniques to examine this effect. We claim that the impact of domestic violence on labor markets is limited among indigenous people, given that violence is, to some extent, socially recognized and accepted. We find that for most of the cases, indigenous women are less responsive to domestic violence than nonindigenous ones, except for groups with a high income level. Our results are robust for alternative methodologies to address possible endogeneity problems.
Subjects: 
labor markets
domestic violence
Bolivia
indigenous
JEL: 
J15
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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