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A Survey Experiment of Women’s Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh
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Demography (2013) 50 (1): 333–357.
Published: 06 September 2012
...Kathryn M. Yount; Nafisa Halim; Sidney Ruth Schuler; Sara Head Abstract According to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in poorer countries, 50 % of women of reproductive age report that wife hitting or beating is justified. Such high rates may result from structural pressures to adopt...
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Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Dyadic Perspective: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1143–1170.
Published: 01 June 2021
... that concordance/discordance in husbands' and wives' attitudes about IPV are meaningful analytical categories that are predictive of other dynamics within the family. Couples' views on wife beating might influence women's likelihood of reporting IPV, or couples' views on the acceptability of wife beating may...
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Women’s status and domestic violence in rural Bangladesh: Individual- and community-level effects
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Demography (2003) 40 (2): 269–288.
Published: 01 May 2003
... lower risks of violence, presumably by reinforcing nascent normative changes in gender relations. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2003 2003 Domestic Violence Physical Violence Wife Beating Credit Program Sample Registration System References Abdullah T.A...
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Experimental design and response rates, overall and by subgroup, ever-marri...
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whether a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife for any of five behavioral transgressions, each with unstated motivations. B = Modified DHS questions about whether a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife for any of the same five behavioral transgressions in A, but clarifying
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men's mobile phone ownership and their attitudes that wife beating is justified for various reasons, for all countries combined (left) and by country (right). Women's data are from DHS women's files, with domestic violence weights. Full specifications are reported (all controls included). The top right
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Measuring Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: The ATT-IPV Scale
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1551–1572.
Published: 21 May 2014
... countries, attitudinal data on IPV against women began to accumulate in the 1990s, when the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) began to ask whether wife beating was justified for behaviors reflecting a continuum of gender transgressions (Kishor and Johnson 2004 ). Since 1995, 88 DHS in 53 lower-income...
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Reproductive health and domestic violence: Are the poorest women uniquely disadvantaged?
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 293–307.
Published: 01 May 2006
... ), 26 – 45 . Diop-Sidibé, N. 2001. “Domestic Violence Against Women in Egypt: Risk Factors and Health Outcomes of Wife Beating.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Ellsberg , M.C. , Heise , L. , Pena , R. , Agurto , S...
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Husbands’ versus wives’ fertility goals and use of contraception: The influence of gender context in five Asian countries
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 299–311.
Published: 01 August 2000
... Jejeebhoy , S.J. ( 1995 ). Women’s Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behaviour: Experience From Developing Countries . Oxford : Clarendon . Jejeebhoy , S.J. ( 1998 ). Associations Between Wife-Beating and Fetal and Infant Death: Impressions From a Survey in Rural India . Studies...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 653–684.
Published: 01 April 2022
... men's mobile phone ownership and their attitudes that wife beating is justified for various reasons, for all countries combined (left) and by country (right). Women's data are from DHS women's files, with domestic violence weights. Full specifications are reported (all controls included). The top right...
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View articletitled, Safer If Connected? Mobile Technology and Intimate Partner Violence
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Women’s autonomy and child survival: A comparison of muslims and non-muslims in four Asian countries
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 419–436.
Published: 01 August 2003
... ). Population Policy and Gender Equity in Post-Revolutionary Iran . In
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Obermeyer (Ed.), Family, Gender, and Population in the Middle East (pp. 105 – 35 ). Cairo : American University in Cairo Press . Jejeebhoy S.J. ( 1998 ). Associations Between Wife-beating and Fetal and Infant...
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Patriarchy, Power, and Pay: The Transformation of American Families, 1800–2015
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1797–1823.
Published: 28 October 2015
...; today’s families are far more humane and egalitarian than anything that came before. Corporal punishment of wives is universally condemned, and wife-beating is illegal in every state. Child-beating is still legal in the United States, but even in Texas, it is no longer acceptable to punish a child...
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The Marital Implications of Bereavement: Child Death and Intimate Partner Violence in West and Central Africa
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 347–371.
Published: 27 January 2020
... ). Associations between wife-beating and fetal and infant death: Impressions from a survey in rural India . Studies in Family Planning , 29 , 300 – 308 . 10.2307/172276 Karamagi C. A. S. , Tumwine J. K. , Tylleskar T. , & Heggenhougen K. ( 2007 ). Intimate partner violence...
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Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 1821–1852.
Published: 03 November 2016
... ), even when women’s mean grades of schooling and other community attributes are controlled for. In Egypt, the adjusted odds of justifying wife hitting or beating were lower among women who lived in communities with an older average age at first marriage (Yount and Li 2010 ). Based on social norms...
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Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: An Exploration of Selection Bias Influences
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1819–1843.
Published: 10 July 2013
.... , & Wahba S. ( 2002 ). Propensity score-matching methods for nonexperimental causal studies . The Review of Economics and Statistics , 84 , 151 – 161 . 10.1162/003465302317331982 Diop-Sidibe N. ( 2001 ). Domestic violence against women in Egypt: Risk factors and health out-comes of wife...
View articletitled, Microcredit and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: An Exploration of Selection Bias Influences
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Sampling Weights for Analyses of Couple Data: Example of the Demographic and Health Surveys
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1447–1473.
Published: 02 July 2018
... 0.3 100 Ideal family size (ref. = both want <4 children) Only wife wants <4 children –0.51 0.30 0.2 –1.0 102 Only husband wants <4 children –0.72 0.30 –0.2 1.6 97 Both want >3 children –1.04 0.30 –3.3 0.2 101 Acceptance of wife beating (ref...
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Does Schooling Affect Women’s Desired Fertility? Evidence From Malawi, Uganda, and Ethiopia
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 787–809.
Published: 08 May 2015
...) 2.0 (1.2) 2.0 (1.2) Wife makes decisions about earnings (0–1) 0.7 (0.4) 0.7 (0.4) 0.7 (0.5) 0.7 (0.4) 0.7 (0.4) 0.7 (0.4) Wife beating not acceptable (0–1) 0.9 (0.3) 0.9 (0.3) 0.5 (0.5) 0.5 (0.5) 0.4 (0.5) 0.3 (0.5) Pathway 3 Reads newspaper (0–1) 0.3 (0.5) 0.3 (0.5...
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Work shifts of full-time dual-earner couples: Patterns and contrasts by sex of spouse
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Demography (1987) 24 (1): 99–112.
Published: 01 February 1987
... with an earlier finding, on a subsampIe of dual-earner parents only, that a wife's shift-work status is contingent on her husband's job characteristics as weIl as her own, but a husband's shift-work status is contingent only on his job characteristics. The current data show that the differential by shift-work...
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Savings/credit group formation and change in contraception
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 267–282.
Published: 01 May 2001
... a positive association, however, between joining a group and a husband s threats of taking another wife. A woman who ex- periences this type of abuse is likely to feel insecure in her marriage and may seek to become more financially indepen- dent through membership in a savings scheme. Mahmud and Huda (1997...
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Parents’ Marital Quality and Children’s Transition to Adulthood
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 195–220.
Published: 31 January 2020
... interview, respondents were asked, “Has your (husband/wife) ever beaten you?,” with response options of yes or no. For both analysis samples, about 18% of children have parents who reported being victims of spousal violence. Of them, roughly 80% have only mothers who reported that their husbands beat them...
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Demography (2019) 56 (5): 1765–1790.
Published: 07 October 2019
... is justified in beating his wife/partner under various circumstances: if she (1) went out without telling him; (2) neglected the children; (3) argued with him; (4) refused to have sex with him; and (5) burned the food. The five items were coded as 1 if the man is not viewed as justified, and 0 otherwise...
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View articletitled, The Causal Effect of Maternal Education on Child Mortality: Evidence From a Quasi-Experiment in Malawi and Uganda
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