Vancouver School of Economics, University or British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Nat Hum Behav. 2021 Aug;5(8):1021-1026. doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01077-w. Epub 2021 Mar 18.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects 30% of ever-partnered women worldwide. This study demonstrates how stronger female marital property rights can lead to lower levels of IPV. If women are financially protected outside of marriage, they in turn experience lower levels of violence inside marriage. Using a natural experiment from the colonization of Sub-Saharan Africa, this study aims to isolate the direct effect of large-scale changes to women's property rights from other IPV risk factors. The findings show that more equitable marital property rights could both reduce the incidence of IPV and also increase women's own condemnation of the violence. The empirical estimates suggest that legal property reform could render at least 12 million women less vulnerable to IPV across Sub-Saharan Africa.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）影响了全球 30%的已婚女性。本研究表明，女性的婚姻财产权越强，亲密伴侣暴力的程度就越低。如果女性在婚姻之外能得到经济保护，那么她们在婚姻中遭受暴力的程度也会相应降低。本研究利用撒哈拉以南非洲殖民化的自然实验，旨在将女性财产权的大规模变化对亲密伴侣暴力的直接影响与其他亲密伴侣暴力风险因素隔离开来。研究结果表明，更公平的婚姻财产权不仅可以降低亲密伴侣暴力的发生率，还可以增加女性对暴力的谴责。实证估计表明，法律财产改革可以使撒哈拉以南非洲地区至少 1200 万女性减少亲密伴侣暴力的脆弱性。
