@article{ref1,
title="A drop of love? Rainfall shocks and spousal abuse: evidence from rural Peru",
journal="Journal of health economics",
year="2023",
author="Díaz, Juan-José and Saldarriaga, Victor",
volume="89",
number="",
pages="e102739-e102739",
abstract="We investigate whether exposure to rainfall shocks affects the experience of physical intimate partner violence (P-IPV) among women in rural areas of the Peruvian Andes. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys over 2005-2014, we track changes in the probability that a woman experiences recent instances of P-IPV after being exposed to a rainfall shock during the last cropping season. Our results indicate that the probability that a woman experiences P-IPV increases by 8.5 percentage points (65 percent) after exposure to a dry, but not a wet, shock during the cropping season. We identify two complementary causal pathways of this effect: increased economic insecurity and poverty-related stress that deteriorates men's emotional well-being and mental health, and reduced female empowerment that affects women's ability to negotiate their preferences within the relationship.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0167-6296",
doi="10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102739",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102739"
}