Gender norms and intimate partner violence

González Luna, Libertad; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria

Gender norms and intimate partner violence

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González Luna, L, Rodríguez-Planas, N. Gender norms and intimate partner violence. 2018. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44729

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Abstract

We study the effect of social gender norms on the incidence of domestic violence. We use data for 28 European countries from the 2012 European survey on violence against women, and focus on first and second generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for country of residence fixed effects, as well as demographic characteristics and other source-country variables, higher gender equality in the country of ancestry is significantly associated with a lower risk of victimization in the host country. This suggests that gender norms may play an important role in explaining the incidence of intimate partner violence.