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Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decision Making and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence : Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries (English)

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 responses to survey questions, the analysis finds that compared with joint decision making, sole decision making by the husband is associated with a 3.3 percentage point higher incidence of physical intimate...
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Donald,Aletheia Amalia; Doss,Cheryl; Goldstein,Markus P.; Gupta,Sakshi.

Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decision Making and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence : Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9760 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/255851630330267060

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