@article{ref1,
title="Domestic violence, decision-making power, and female employment in Colombia",
journal="Review of economics of the household",
year="2020",
author="Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna",
volume="",
number="",
pages="-",
abstract="Using data from the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey, I document a positive association between intimate partner violence against women and the likelihood of women's employment. This finding persists when I exploit the husband's own childhood experience of abuse as a source of plausibly exogenous variation for the incidence of domestic violence. To explore potential mechanisms underlying this association, I use a mediation analysis in the presence of intermediate confounders. I find suggestive evidence that a woman's decision-making power--measured by active input in household and healthcare decisions--as well as a measure for willingness to divorce are likely mediators. I argue that abused women may hold jobs to increase their economic independence and potentially exit abusive relationships.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1569-5239",
doi="10.1007/s11150-020-09491-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09491-1"
}