Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia

Little is known about the impacts of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV). The scarcity of empirical studies on this relationship can be partly attributed to the lack of an objective measure of urbanization levels. In this study, we investigate the effects of urba...

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Autores principales: Amare, Mulubrhan, Arndt, Channing, Guo, Zhe, Seymour, Greg
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143241
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author Amare, Mulubrhan
Arndt, Channing
Guo, Zhe
Seymour, Greg
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Guo, Zhe
Seymour, Greg
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Arndt, Channing
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description Little is known about the impacts of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV). The scarcity of empirical studies on this relationship can be partly attributed to the lack of an objective measure of urbanization levels. In this study, we investigate the effects of urbanization on both women’s attitudes toward IPV using three continuous measures of urbanization: nightlight intensity, distance to urban areas, and total urban area within a 10-km radius. These measures are defined from satellite-based nighttime-light-intensity and multispectralsensor data. We find that despite a generally strong positive association between urbanization and progressive attitudes among women toward IPV, some stages of urbanization show a more significant association than others. Such nonlinear relationships are apparent in all estimations and across different measurements of urbanization. The heterogeneities in the effect of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence further show that the effects of urbanization are sharply heterogeneous across wealth indicator terciles. While we find that urbanization is associated with an overall decrease in the acceptance of IPV, the effect is mostly concentrated in higher wealth terciles. For women in lower wealth terciles, urbanization is either insignificant or even associated with an increase in the acceptance of IPV.
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spelling CGSpace1432412025-11-06T05:16:38Z Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia Amare, Mulubrhan Arndt, Channing Guo, Zhe Seymour, Greg gender surveys urban areas households urbanization domestic violence rural areas women violence Little is known about the impacts of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV). The scarcity of empirical studies on this relationship can be partly attributed to the lack of an objective measure of urbanization levels. In this study, we investigate the effects of urbanization on both women’s attitudes toward IPV using three continuous measures of urbanization: nightlight intensity, distance to urban areas, and total urban area within a 10-km radius. These measures are defined from satellite-based nighttime-light-intensity and multispectralsensor data. We find that despite a generally strong positive association between urbanization and progressive attitudes among women toward IPV, some stages of urbanization show a more significant association than others. Such nonlinear relationships are apparent in all estimations and across different measurements of urbanization. The heterogeneities in the effect of urbanization on women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence further show that the effects of urbanization are sharply heterogeneous across wealth indicator terciles. While we find that urbanization is associated with an overall decrease in the acceptance of IPV, the effect is mostly concentrated in higher wealth terciles. For women in lower wealth terciles, urbanization is either insignificant or even associated with an increase in the acceptance of IPV. 2020-12-01 2024-05-22T12:12:41Z 2024-05-22T12:12:41Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143241 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Amare, Mulubrhan; Arndt, Channing; Guo, Zhe; and Seymour, Gregory. 2020. Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia. ESSP Working Paper 155. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134224.
spellingShingle gender
surveys
urban areas
households
urbanization
domestic violence
rural areas
women
violence
Amare, Mulubrhan
Arndt, Channing
Guo, Zhe
Seymour, Greg
Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia
title Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia
title_full Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia
title_fullStr Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia
title_short Variation in women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural-urban continuum in Ethiopia
title_sort variation in women s attitudes toward intimate partner violence across the rural urban continuum in ethiopia
topic gender
surveys
urban areas
households
urbanization
domestic violence
rural areas
women
violence
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143241
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