Causes and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence

Rahman, Atiya (2025) Causes and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence. Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

My thesis investigates the unexplored causes and consequences of intimate partner violence (IPV), contributing to understanding and addressing gender disparities. My first chapter examines the influence of weather shocks on IPV in the Global South. Combining data from 54 Demographic Health Surveys and weather data from 53,506 local clusters in India, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Latin America (LA), I find that in most regions, physical IPV increases with positive temperature shocks. The effects of rainfall shocks vary across regions, increasing with negative shocks in rural SSA and with positive shocks in urban LA. Some regions also show increases in emotional and sexual IPV.

My second chapter assesses the persistence of the impacts of a credit-based graduation programme on IPV, using a randomised controlled trial with two endlines at one and seven years after the programme ended in rural Bangladesh. Women in the treatment group are less likely to experience IPV compared to women in the control group in the short run, while these effects reverse in the long run. Compared to the control group, the treatment group experiences better economic conditions in the long run, yet experiences a lower reduction in IPV between endlines, perhaps due to stagnation in the economic conditions of treatment women between endlines.

The third chapter examines the impact of IPV priming on women’s risk and time preferences in the same country. By randomising the order of IPV priming and preference modules in a survey, I find that IPV priming reduces risk aversion regardless of real-life IPV experiences. IPV priming further reduces (increases) impatience among women with (without) emotional IPV experiences. A theoretical model and further analysis reveal that negative emotions triggered by the priming mediate these effects. The findings of my thesis provide crucial insights for designing policies to reduce IPV and improve women’s well-being

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	Chris White
Date Deposited:	23 Feb 2026 10:19
Last Modified:	23 Feb 2026 10:19
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102001
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