Causes, consequences, and policy responses to intimate partner violence

In a new episode of VoxDevTalks, ARE professor Manisha Shah discusses her review of the economic literature on intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries. Intimate partner violence remains a pervasive human rights violation and significant global public health challenge. While the social and psychological dimensions of domestic abuse have long been studied by sociologists and public health experts, economists have only recently begun to rigorously analyse the causes, consequences, and costs.