Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193286 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11992
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we study the effect of household shocks on the incidence of domestic violence using household survey microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households. We find that droughts lead to a considerable increase of domestic violence in the households. A one standard deviation negative rainfall shock from the long-term mean increases the incidence by about 13.1 per cent compared to the baseline. We make use of the rich information from the household survey to investigate the underlying pathways.
Subjects: 
domestic violence
household shocks
rainfall
Tanzania
JEL: 
D13
I10
J12
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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