Women’s Access to Labor Market Opportunities, Control of Household Resources, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh
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While there are many positive societal implications of increased female labor force opportunities, working may increase a woman’s risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a dataset I collected in sixty villages outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, I document a positive correlation between work and domestic violence, but only among women with less education or who were younger at first marriage. These results are consistent with a theoretical model in which a woman with low bargaining power can face increased risk of domestic violence upon entering the labor force as her husband seeks to counteract her increased bargaining power.
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Women’s Access to Labor Market Opportunities, Control of Household Resources, and Domestic Violence
While there are many positive societal implications of increased female labor force opportunities, some theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that working can increase a woman’s risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a dataset collected in peri-urban Dhaka, this analysis documents a positive correlation between work and domestic violence. This correlation is only present among w...
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