TY - JOUR
T1 - Remittances and domestic violence
AU - Silverio-Murillo, Adan
AU - Balmori de la Miyar, Jose Roberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Review of Development Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022/11/1
Y1 - 2022/11/1
N2 - This paper estimates the effects of money transfers sent by relatives or acquaintances, better known as remittances, on intimate partner violence (IPV) against married women living in Mexico. Using three waves of a national state-based representative survey specialized in violence against women, and state-fixed effects regression models, the results show that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of IPV by 6%. We document several mechanisms for this detrimental effect of receiving remittances on IPV. Among these mechanisms, we find that receiving remittances is positively correlated to men's alcohol consumption, a factor associated with IPV, and that receiving remittances is negatively correlated to the probability of men being employed, suggesting that men exert violence against women to compensate for the lack of income with remittances.
AB - This paper estimates the effects of money transfers sent by relatives or acquaintances, better known as remittances, on intimate partner violence (IPV) against married women living in Mexico. Using three waves of a national state-based representative survey specialized in violence against women, and state-fixed effects regression models, the results show that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of IPV by 6%. We document several mechanisms for this detrimental effect of receiving remittances on IPV. Among these mechanisms, we find that receiving remittances is positively correlated to men's alcohol consumption, a factor associated with IPV, and that receiving remittances is negatively correlated to the probability of men being employed, suggesting that men exert violence against women to compensate for the lack of income with remittances.
KW - domestic violence
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - Mexico
KW - remittances
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132852526&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/rode.12907
DO - 10.1111/rode.12907
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85132852526
SN - 1363-6669
VL - 26
SP - 2274
EP - 2295
JO - Review of Development Economics
JF - Review of Development Economics
IS - 4
ER -