Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145227 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10093
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate whether violence occurring outside the confines of a home can alter intra-household violence inter-generationally. This paper is the first to explore whether exposure to violence from an armed conflict affects the later use of physical punishment as a child discipline method. Our identification strategy relies on the spatial and temporal variation of the Peruvian civil conflict that occurred between 1980 and 2000. We find that a mother exposed to an additional one hundred violent conflict-related events in her district is 3.4-3.8 percentage points less likely to physically punish her children. This effect is equivalent in magnitude to an additional 10 years of education. We find suggestive evidence that the conflict could have increased parenting knowledge and support. Communities that experienced higher levels of conflict violence saw greater increases in social spending and had more health resources in the post-conflict period. Additionally, we find women's conflict exposure is associated with a higher likelihood of accessing these resources.
Subjects: 
domestic violence
civil conflict
physical child abuse
Peru
JEL: 
J13
D1
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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