Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity

This paper estimates the causal impact that changes in household´s income have on Domestic Violence (DV) rates in Colombia. Using the arguably exogenous variation in time and space of the payments of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program and a three-year-long monthly municipal balanced panel dat...

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Camacho, Adriana
Rodríguez, Catherine
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2020
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Universidad de los Andes
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Domestic violence
Scarcity
Conditional cash transfers
D03, J12, J16
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spelling Al consultar y hacer uso de este recurso, está aceptando las condiciones de uso establecidas por los autores.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Camacho, Adrianac5e1b575-8602-4aea-b9f4-1ee9ddb538d1400Rodríguez, Catherine401b17fd-961f-4daa-abe5-a8fcde4abfd35002020-07-28T17:16:34Z2020-07-28T17:16:34Z20201657-5334http://hdl.handle.net/1992/411331657-719110.57784/1992/41133instname:Universidad de los Andesreponame:Repositorio Institucional Sénecarepourl:https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/This paper estimates the causal impact that changes in household´s income have on Domestic Violence (DV) rates in Colombia. Using the arguably exogenous variation in time and space of the payments of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program and a three-year-long monthly municipal balanced panel data set, we find that DV rates decrease by six percent in the months when the transfers are received. However, this effect is only transitory and varies according to households¿ expectations on when the transfers are received. Negative shocks that take place when families do not receive the transfer they were expecting, intensify economic scarcity, and DV rates in those months follow suit. On the contrary, positive shocks that occur when families receive an unexpected transfer only have a marginal reduction on DV. The channel that appears to be explaining our results is a budget constraint alleviation mechanism that reduces scarcity as the timing of the receipt of the transfer consistently reduces DV and increases consumption in the month of payment. Furthermore, there is no clear evidence of alternative channels that could explain the results such as changes in female empowerment, marital status, labor participation, or social networks of the beneficiary women.36 páginasspaUniversidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDEDocumentos CEDE No. 21 Junio de 2020https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000089/018211.htmlHappily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of ScarcityDocumento de trabajoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85Texthttps://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/WPDomestic violenceScarcityConditional cash transfersD03, J12, J16Facultad de EconomíaPublicationTEXTdcede2020-21.pdf.txtdcede2020-21.pdf.txtExtracted texttext/plain87454https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/10af7a66-4708-4703-9670-089c6c7e6401/download7e8a9539b2713526deaba30b4410ee4dMD54ORIGINALdcede2020-21.pdfdcede2020-21.pdfapplication/pdf1593744https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/60c0c062-177b-407a-b5ff-ddd1728f8976/download5191faa7270e6018fa0207be051e3c9dMD51THUMBNAILdcede2020-21.pdf.jpgdcede2020-21.pdf.jpgIM Thumbnailimage/jpeg9929https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/bitstreams/0f1ae497-ce28-43ef-aeb1-4b6d012b0fed/download13747759d53067a5e09e4fdbdba2fb82MD551992/41133oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/411332024-06-04 15:39:29.643http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/open.accesshttps://repositorio.uniandes.edu.coRepositorio institucional Sénecaadminrepositorio@uniandes.edu.co
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity
title Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity
spellingShingle Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity
Domestic violence
Scarcity
Conditional cash transfers
D03, J12, J16
title_short Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity
title_full Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity
title_fullStr Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity
title_full_unstemmed Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity
title_sort Happily Ever after? Domestic Violence in Periods of Scarcity
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Camacho, Adriana
Rodríguez, Catherine
dc.contributor.author.none.fl_str_mv Camacho, Adriana
Rodríguez, Catherine
dc.subject.keyword.none.fl_str_mv Domestic violence
Scarcity
Conditional cash transfers
topic Domestic violence
Scarcity
Conditional cash transfers
D03, J12, J16
dc.subject.jel.none.fl_str_mv D03, J12, J16
description This paper estimates the causal impact that changes in household´s income have on Domestic Violence (DV) rates in Colombia. Using the arguably exogenous variation in time and space of the payments of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program and a three-year-long monthly municipal balanced panel data set, we find that DV rates decrease by six percent in the months when the transfers are received. However, this effect is only transitory and varies according to households¿ expectations on when the transfers are received. Negative shocks that take place when families do not receive the transfer they were expecting, intensify economic scarcity, and DV rates in those months follow suit. On the contrary, positive shocks that occur when families receive an unexpected transfer only have a marginal reduction on DV. The channel that appears to be explaining our results is a budget constraint alleviation mechanism that reduces scarcity as the timing of the receipt of the transfer consistently reduces DV and increases consumption in the month of payment. Furthermore, there is no clear evidence of alternative channels that could explain the results such as changes in female empowerment, marital status, labor participation, or social networks of the beneficiary women.
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