Abstract
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. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
Recommended Citation
Chin, Y. (2011). Male Backlash, Bargaining, or Exposure Reduction?: Women's Working Status and Physical Spousal Violence in India. Journal of Population Economics, 25(1), pp. 175-200. Springer.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-011-0382-8
Department(s)
Economics
Keywords and Phrases
Exposure reduction; Female employment; Violence
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0933-1433
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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Publication Date
01 Dec 2011
