Unfinished lives: The effect of domestic violence on neonatal and infant mortality

Arbeitspapier

India accounts for 1.7 million child deaths, a quarter of global child mortality. The current literature has succeeded in establishing an association between domestic violence and child mortality, but has yet to present evidence of a causal relationship. In this paper we use an instrumental variable approach to analyse the causal impact of domestic violence against the mother on child mortality in the Indian context. Domestic violence is instrument ed with the real price o f gold at the time of marriage of the mother. Results lend evidence to a bias in OLS estimates and s how a significant positive relationship between domestic violence and mortality. A one standard deviation increase in domestic violence translates to a 6 percentage point increase in both neonatal and infant mortality.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2014-27

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
• Thema: domestic violence ; dowry ; instrumental variable

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Menon, Seetha
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (wo): Colchester
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126472
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ