Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decision Making and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence : Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries
Intimate partner violence affects 36 percent of women in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper examines the relationship between decision making within couples and the incidence of intimate partner violence across 12 African countries. Using the wife’s re...
Main Authors: | Donald, Aletheia, Doss, Cheryl, Goldstein, Markus P., Gupta, Sakshi |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/255851630330267060/Sharing-Responsibility-through-Joint-Decision-Making-and-Implications-for-Intimate-Partner-Violence-Evidence-from-12-Sub-Saharan-African-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36225 |
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