Natural disasters and domestic violence?: A study of the 2015 Nepal earthquake

• Main Authors: ARPITA KHANNA, FUJII, Tomoki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Earthquake; Stress; Intimate partner violence; Differences-in-differences; Gender; Asian Studies; Behavioral Economics; Demography, Population, and Ecology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2457; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3456/viewcontent/Do_natural_disasters_cause_domestic_violence_mar2023__with_cover_page_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study estimates the impact of exposure to the 2015 Nepal Earthquake on intimate partner violence with two rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys data. Using differences-in-differences estimation, we find that exposure to the earthquake lead to a statistically and economically significant incr...