Camila Navajas Ahumada es Profesora de tiempo completo en la Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). Tiene un PhD en Economía por la Universidad de California San Diego y una Maestría en Economía por la Universidad de San Andrés. Realizó sus estudios de grado en la UTDT. Sus investigaciones se centran en temas de microeconomía aplicada, desarrollo y economía laboral, utilizando enfoques experimentales y cuasiexperimentales para generar evidencia causal que ayude a mejorar las políticas públicas de países en desarrollo, particularmente de América Latina. Sus trabajos han sido publicados en revistas académicas como Journal of Development Economics, Kyklos y Labour Economics. 

Abstract: Whether and why intimate partner violence (IPV) is intergenerationally persistent has important implications for its long-run survival and inequality. We estimate mother--daughter (father--son-in-law) associations in IPV victimization (perpetration) using Demographic and Health Survey data from 16 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Women who report that their mother was physically abused by their father are twice as likely (26 percentage points) to have experienced physical or sexual violence with their current husband. We explore the role of family socialization and assortative matching in explaining IPV persistence. Interparental violence is positively associated with the reported acceptability of IPV by daughters. Examining assortative matching, we find a positive association between the daughter and son-in-law’s acceptability of IPV and this association is stronger for daughters who report interparental violence. In addition, we explore the role of culture using ethnicity-level variation and find that IPV persistence is magnified for ethnicities with less gender-equal norms.

Autores: Camila Navajas Ahumada (UTDT), Juan Hernández-Leal (University of California San Diego) & Frances Lu (California Department of Social Services)

Organizan: Departamento de Economía, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Revista Económica

Contacto: iie@econo.unlp.edu.ar