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Can transfers and behavior change communication reduce intimate partner violence four years post-program? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh:

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  • Roy, Shalini
  • Hidrobo, Melissa
  • Hoddinott, John F.
  • Koch, Bastien
  • Ahmed, Akhter

Abstract

Little is known about whether reductions in intimate partner violence (IPV) from cash transfer programs persist over the longer term. Using a randomized controlled trial design, we show that a program providing poor women in rural Bangladesh with cash or food transfers, alongside nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), led to sustained reductions in IPV 4 years after the program ended. Transfers alone showed no sustained impacts on IPV. Evidence suggests cash and BCC led to more sustained impacts on IPV than food and BCC – through persistent increases in women’s bargaining power, men’s costs of perpetrating violence, and poverty-related emotional well-being.

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  • Roy, Shalini & Hidrobo, Melissa & Hoddinott, John F. & Koch, Bastien & Ahmed, Akhter, 2019. "Can transfers and behavior change communication reduce intimate partner violence four years post-program? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh:," IFPRI discussion papers 1869, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:ifprid:1869
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    1. Groves, Allison K. & Gebrekristos, Luwam T. & Stoner, Marie C.D. & Gómez-Olivé, F Xavier & Kahn, Kathleen & Pettifor, Audrey E., 2024. "Assessing the durability of a cash transfer on physical intimate partner violence and sexual relationships among adolescent girls and young women in rural South Africa," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 350(C).
    2. Quisumbing, Agnes & Ahmed, Akhter & Hoddinott, John & Pereira, Audrey & Roy, Shalini, 2021. "Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project in Bangladesh," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    3. Salauddin Tauseef, 2022. "Can Money Buy Happiness? Subjective Wellbeing and Its Relationship with Income, Relative Income, Monetary and Non-monetary Poverty in Bangladesh," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 1073-1098, March.
    4. Perova,Elizaveta & Johnson,Erik Caldwell & Mannava,Aneesh & Reynolds,Sarah Anne & Teman,Alana Hinda, 2021. "Public Work Programs and Gender-Based Violence : Evidence from Lao PDR," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9691, The World Bank.

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    Keywords

    BANGLADESH; SOUTH ASIA; ASIA; social protection; cash transfer; gender; sustainability; domestic violence; behavior change communication; intimate partner violence; J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse; D10 Household Behavior: General; I38 Welfare; Well-Being; and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs; O10 Economic Development: General;
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    JEL classification:

    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General

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