Lucile Laugerette
Weather Shocks and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
I investigate whether exposure to rainfall shocks during the last and next-to-last growing season affects the probability that women in Sub-Saharan Africa experience physical, emotional and sexual intimate partner violence. Results indicate that there is an increase in the probability that a woman experience physical violence after a severely dry shock during the last growing season. A severely dry shock during the next-to-last growing season increases the probability of facing emotional and sexual violence. Complementary results point that the increasing effect goes through higher poverty-related stress that aggravates alcohol consumption, as well as “male backlash” and increased marital control.