Paying for Violence? Spousal Abuse and Son Preference in India
| Autor: | Erin K. Fletcher, Shatanjaya Dasgupta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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05 social sciences Son preference Development 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 0502 economics and business Gender bias Health survey Domestic violence 030212 general & internal medicine Girl 050207 economics Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.5414551 |
| Popis: | We find a puzzling correlation in the data on domestic violence and children’s outcomes in India. Using the 2005–2006 National Family and Health Survey, we see that girls in families experiencing spousal violence are less worse off than boys when only fathers report a son preference while the gender bias reverses when only mothers report having a son preference. To shed light on the puzzle in the data, we present a non-cooperative theoretical framework based in economic theories of domestic violence, whereby differing parental son preference and bargaining over investments in girl and boy children potentially explains the observed relationship. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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