Replication data for: The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador

Name: Replication data for: The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador
Published: 2016-07-01
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Keywords: Randomized control trial

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Melissa Hidrobo; Amber Peterman; Lori Heise

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Project Citation:

Hidrobo, Melissa, Peterman, Amber, and Heise, Lori. Replication data for: The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113634V1

Project Description

Summary: Using a randomized experiment in Ecuador, this study provides evidence on whether cash, vouchers, and food transfers targeted to women and intended to reduce poverty and food insecurity also affected intimate partner violence. Results indicate that transfers reduce controlling behaviors and physical and/or sexual violence by 6 to 7 percentage points. Impacts do not vary by transfer modality, which provides evidence that transfers not only have the potential to decrease violence in the short-term, but also that cash is just as effective as in-kind transfers.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Randomized control trial

JEL Classification:
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
      K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements

Geographic Coverage: Ecuador

Time Period(s): 3/2011 – 11/2011

Universe: The program was implemented in seven urban centers with large Colombian refugee populations in the provinces of Carchi and Sucumbios in Northern Ecuador. To determine program qualification, all households within the pre-chosen neighborhoods were mapped and administered a short census survey. Households were ranked according to a proxy means test and a cut off score to determine program eligibility was implemented based on project budget constraints. Random sample of beneficiaries are included in the dataset.

Data Type(s): survey data

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: Household/women,

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