Re-examining the effects of drought on intimate-partner violence

Droughts are associated with several societal ills, especially in developing economies that rely on rainfed agriculture. Recently, researchers have begun to examine the effect of droughts on the risk of Intimate-Partner Violence (IPV), but so far this work has led to inconclusive results. For exampl...

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Autores principales: Cooper, Matthew, Sandler, Austin, Vitellozzi, Sveva, Lee, Yeyoung, Seymour, Greg, Haile, Beliyou, Azzarri, Carlo
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142845
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author Cooper, Matthew
Sandler, Austin
Vitellozzi, Sveva
Lee, Yeyoung
Seymour, Greg
Haile, Beliyou
Azzarri, Carlo
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Cooper, Matthew
Haile, Beliyou
Lee, Yeyoung
Sandler, Austin
Seymour, Greg
Vitellozzi, Sveva
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Lee, Yeyoung
Seymour, Greg
Haile, Beliyou
Azzarri, Carlo
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description Droughts are associated with several societal ills, especially in developing economies that rely on rainfed agriculture. Recently, researchers have begun to examine the effect of droughts on the risk of Intimate-Partner Violence (IPV), but so far this work has led to inconclusive results. For example, two large recent studies analyzed comparable data from multiple sub-Saharan African countries and drew opposite conclusions. We attempt to resolve this apparent paradox by replicating previous analyses with the largest data set yet assembled to study drought and IPV. Integrating the methods of previous studies and taking particular care to control for spatial autocorrelation, we find little association between drought and most forms of IPV, although we do find evidence of associations between drought and women’s partners exhibiting controlling behaviors. Moreover, we do not find significant heterogeneous effects based on wealth, employment, household drinking water sources, or urban-rural locality.
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spelling CGSpace1428452025-01-24T14:20:35Z Re-examining the effects of drought on intimate-partner violence Cooper, Matthew Sandler, Austin Vitellozzi, Sveva Lee, Yeyoung Seymour, Greg Haile, Beliyou Azzarri, Carlo gender agriculture spatial analysis drought domestic violence violence women Droughts are associated with several societal ills, especially in developing economies that rely on rainfed agriculture. Recently, researchers have begun to examine the effect of droughts on the risk of Intimate-Partner Violence (IPV), but so far this work has led to inconclusive results. For example, two large recent studies analyzed comparable data from multiple sub-Saharan African countries and drew opposite conclusions. We attempt to resolve this apparent paradox by replicating previous analyses with the largest data set yet assembled to study drought and IPV. Integrating the methods of previous studies and taking particular care to control for spatial autocorrelation, we find little association between drought and most forms of IPV, although we do find evidence of associations between drought and women’s partners exhibiting controlling behaviors. Moreover, we do not find significant heterogeneous effects based on wealth, employment, household drinking water sources, or urban-rural locality. 2021-07-28 2024-05-22T12:11:10Z 2024-05-22T12:11:10Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142845 en Open Access Public Library of Science Cooper, Matthew; Sandler, Austin; Vitellozzi, Sveva; Lee, Yeyoung; Seymour, Greg; Haile, Beliyou; and Azzarri, Carlo. 2021. Re-examining the effects of drought on intimate-partner violence. PLoS ONE 16(7): e0254346. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254346
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Lee, Yeyoung
Seymour, Greg
Haile, Beliyou
Azzarri, Carlo
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title Re-examining the effects of drought on intimate-partner violence
title_full Re-examining the effects of drought on intimate-partner violence
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title_short Re-examining the effects of drought on intimate-partner violence
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topic gender
agriculture
spatial analysis
drought
domestic violence
violence
women
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