Health, Human Capital, and Domestic Violence
Year: 2019
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: We treat health as a form of human capital and hypothesize that women with more human capital face stronger incentives to make costly investments with future payoffs, such as avoiding abusive partners and reducing drug use. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the unanticipated introduction of an HIV treatment, HAART, which dramatically improved HIV+ women's health. We find that after the introduction of HAART HIV+ women who experienced increases in expected longevity exhibited a decrease in domestic violence of 15% and in drug use of 1520%. We rule out confounding via secular trends using a control group of healthier women.
Source: The Journal of Human Resources
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, Johns Hopkins University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty, Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, State University of New York, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Washington University in St. Louis
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: Emory WIHS CRS - Longitudinal Cohort, The Connie Wofsy Women's HIV Study, Brooklyn Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) V, Miami Womens Interagency HIV Study WIHS, WIHS Data Management and Analysis Center (WDMAC), Southern California Women's Interagency HIV Study Consortium, Chicago WIHS Consortium V (CWC), Washington Women's Interagency HIV/AIDS Study, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) Renewal, University of North Carolina Womens Interagency HIV Study UNC WIHS, Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS-V), UAB-MISS WIHS Cohort, MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study: Brooklyn Clinical Research Site (Bklyn CRS)
OpenAlex ID: W2560310542