Intimate partner violence

Female politicians in India expand reproductive healthcare, but spousal conflict over number of sons can turn contraceptive gains into domestic violence.

Cold snaps increase domestic violence in the Peruvian Highlands by reducing agricultural income. Policies that improve households’ resilience to agricultural income losses can help mitigate this effect.

Pairing an aspirations workshop with a cash transfer helped Kenyan women gain control of household resources and reduced intimate partner violence.

What have we learned about the causes, consequences, and policy responses to intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries?

Combining direct questions with list experiments can help deduce men’s true perspectives on gender-based violence.

When new manufacturing sectors emerge in developing countries, a significant share of the workforce is often comprised of women, many of whom previously lacked access to non-agricultural employment. Such employment can have important consequences for...

Cambodia’s extensive unilateral trade liberalisation following its accession to the WTO in 2004 led to physical, sexual, and psychological violence against women in districts where tariff reductions were more pronounced

Angolan war veterans exposed to sexual violence during the war are more likely to be violent to their wives in the post-war period

Self-interviewing survey techniques substantially increase reported levels of intimate partner violence, but this may be driven by respondents’ misunderstanding