Title
(Un)Conditional Love in the Time of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Effect of the Peruvian JUNTOS Program on Spousal Abuse
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Saldarriaga V.
Publisher(s)
University of Chicago Press
Abstract
Cash transfer programs often target women as the recipient of the money. Unintentionally, this flow of unearned income may reduce spousal abuse. We investigate this possibility by assessing the Peruvian JUNTOS program. We exploit the staggered timing in the rollout of the program across municipalities along with its eligibility rule for determining participation to perform a difference-in-differences analysis. Using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys, we find that JUNTOS reduced the prevalence of physical intimate partner violence by 25%–30%. Further analysis indicates that reductions in frequent alcohol consumption and alcohol-related aggression from male partners are behind this result.
Start page
865
End page
899
Volume
70
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia política
Economía
DOI
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85118780367
Source
Economic Development and Cultural Change
ISSN of the container
00130079
Sponsor(s)
This study is part of the Social Protection and Beyond project funded by the International Development Research Centre. We thank the associate editor and two anonymous referees for helpful input and Suzanne Duryea, Joshua Gottlieb, and Sylvie Lambert for insightful comments on previous versions of the paper. Any error is our own. Contact the corresponding author, Juan-José Díaz, at jjdiaz@grade.org.pe. 1 See Morrison and Orlando (1999) for Chile and Nicaragua and Ribero and Sanchez (2005) for Colombia. These costs are mostly related to lost productivity (as defined by reductions in earnings or forgone labor income) that arises after instances of abuse experienced by women. There is also evidence of other unobserved impacts not usually taken into consideration when calculating the costs of
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