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Risk of Economic Violence: A New Quantification

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  • Federica D’Agostino

    (Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy)

  • Giulia Zacchia

    (Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy)

  • Marcella Corsi

    (Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Roma, Italy)

Abstract

This paper defines the first internationally comparable measure of the risk of economic violence to acknowledge its prevalence in different countries and its geographical and gender heterogeneity. Thanks to the availability of micro-data from the OECD/International Network on Financial Education survey, currently used to track financial literacy in different countries, we define a measure of the risk of economic violence (REV) that takes into consideration three macro-areas: (a) the risk of being prevented from acquiring and accumulating financial resources; (b) the risk of being unaware and not having access to personal and/or household financial resources; and (c) the risk of financial dependency. The definition of the new economic violence risk measure (REV) then allows us to verify with real data the presence of women’s greater exposure to the risk of economic violence and the presence of gender differences in the determinants of economic violence risk. Finally, we verify that financial literacy protects individuals from the risk of economic violence, without gender differences.

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  • Federica D’Agostino & Giulia Zacchia & Marcella Corsi, 2024. "Risk of Economic Violence: A New Quantification," IJFS, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-20, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijfss:v:12:y:2024:i:3:p:82-:d:1458977
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