Male backlash, bargaining, or exposure reduction?: women's working status and physical spousal violence in India
Male backlash, bargaining, or exposure reduction?: women's working status and physical spousal violence in India
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DOI：
10.1007/s00148-011-0382-8
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Chin, Yoo-Mi
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作者：
Chin, Yoo-Mi
妇女的劳动力参与预计将通过提高她们的讨价还价能力或减少她们与虐待伴侣的接触来减少配偶暴力的风险。当女性就业引发男性反弹时，预计会产生相反的效果。我通过利用降雨冲击和稻麦两分制导致的农村妇女工作状况的外生变化，确定了女性就业对配偶暴力的影响。工具变量回归结果表明，女性就业显著降低了配偶暴力的发生率。这一结果主要是由主导男性反弹的暴露减少效应推动的。然而，没有证据表明讨价还价的效果。
Labor force participation of women is expected to decrease the risk of spousal violence by enhancing their bargaining power or diminishing their contacts with abusive partners. The opposite effect is predicted when female employment induces male backlash. I identify the effect of female employment on spousal violence by exploiting the exogenous variations in rural women's working status driven by rainfall shocks and the rice-wheat dichotomy. The instrumental variable regression result indicates that female employment significantly reduces the incidence of spousal violence. This result is mainly driven by the exposure reduction effect that dominates male backlash. There is, however, no evidence on the bargaining effect.