Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300061 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11133
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
We study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by women only, men only, or both, relevant to a high-stakes joint household decision. We model communication between spouses as Bayesian persuasion where disagreements elevate the risk of IPV. Our framework predicts that IPV will be lower when only one spouse is informed, compared to when both are, as the opportunity for persuasion by one spouse leads to more agreement. To test the model's predictions we leverage an existing randomized controlled trial of an edutainment intervention addressing child marriage decisions for girls in rural Pakistan, targeted at men, women, or both. Our empirical findings confirm the prediction that the likelihood of IPV is highest when men and women are jointly targeted. Due to systematic gender differences in preferences, our persuasion model further predicts that marriage delays are largest when targeting men alone or jointly with women and smallest when targeting women alone, predictions that are also confirmed in the data.
Subjects: 
gender
intimate partner violence
Bayesian persuasion
targeting
edutainment
field experiment
JEL: 
J12
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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