Cash transfer and intimate partner violence research collaborative: Project outputs

Blogs & Op-Eds

• Tips for linking social protection and gender-based prevention and response during COVID-19 (Gender and COVID-19 Working Group blog)
• Why gender sensitive social protection is critical to the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries (IFPRI blog)
• Violence in time of coronavirus – the ugly truth (Think Global health op-ed)
• A gender lens on COVID-19: Pandemic and violence against women and children (Center for Global Development blog)
• How is economic security linked to gender-based violence? New insights from the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2019 (IFPRI blog)
• Reducing intimate partner violence through cash transfers: The next research frontier (IFPRI blog)
• Cash transfers and intimate partner violence (Voxdev op-ed)
• Cash support: a new tool to decrease Intimate Partner Violence? (LSHTM op-ed)
• Our not-so-dirty little secret—and what cash has to do with it (Reuters op-ed on Ecuador paper)
• Can cash transfers prevent intimate partner violence? (PIM blog)
• Opinion: Measuring the unintended benefits of a development program (Devex op-ed)
• Cash or food transfers combined with behavior change communication reduce intimate partner violence: evidence from Bangladesh (Sexual Violence Research Initiative blog)
• Interrogating the evidence: The potential for social safety nets to reduce childhood violence (LSHTM op-ed)
• Measuring taboo topics: List randomization for research on gender-based violence  (UNICEF blog)
• Making cash transfers more effective in reducing intimate partner violence (IFPRI Blog)
• Beyond targeting: Making social protection work for women in Ghana (UNICEF Blog)
• Can social protection simultaneously reduce violence against children and violence against women? (UNICEF Blog)

Briefs & Infographics

• Cash transfers and intimate partner violence: A research view on design and implementation for risk mitigation and prevention (IFPRI Issue Brief)
• Cash transfers and intimate partner violence (IPV) in low- and middle-income settings: A joint research agenda to inform policy and practice (IFPRI Project Note)
• Gender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries (IFPRI Issue Brief)
• Cash transfers and intimate partner violence Prevention Collaborative Evidence Brief
• Cash, food, and vouchers reduce intimate partner violence in urban areas in Ecuador PHND & PIM Brief
• Cash transfers and intimate partner violence: What does the evidence say? PHND Infographic
• Cash transfers conditional on schooling reduce IPV among young women in South Africa PHND Brief
• Food and cash transfers coupled with nutrition behavior change communication lead to sustained reductions in intimate partner violence in Bangladesh PHND & PIM Brief

Journal Articles & Discussion Papers

• Barrington, Clare, Amber Peterman, Akalpa J. Akaligaung, Tia Palermo, Marlous de Milliano, and Raymond Aborigo. Poverty can break a home’: Exploring mechanisms linking cash plus programming and intimate partner violence in Ghana. Social Science & Medicine (2021): 114521.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114521 
• Peterman, Amber; Elsa Valli; and Tia M. Palermo. Government anti-poverty programming and intimate partner violence in Ghana. Economic Development and Cultural Change. First available online January 29, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1086/713767 
• Ranganathan, Meghna; Lori Heise; Amber Peterman; Shalini Roy, and Melissa Hidrobo. 2021. Cross-disciplinary intersections between public health and economics in intimate partner violence research. SSM-Population Health 14: 100822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100822 
• Lees, Shelley; Nambusi Kyegombe; Ampa Diatta; Amanda Zogrone; Shalini Roy; and Melissa Hidrobo. 2021. Intimate partner relationships and gender norms in Mali: the scope of cash transfers targeted to men to reduce intimate partner violence. Violence against women 27, no. 3-4. p. 447-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801219897853
• Heath, Rachel; Hidrobo, Melissa; and Roy, Shalini. 2020. Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali. Journal of Development Economics 143(March 2020): 102410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102410
• Roy, Shalini; Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John F.; Koch, Bastien; and Ahmed, Akhter. 2019. Can transfers and behavior change communication reduce intimate partner violence four years post-program? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1869. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133421
• Roy, Shalini; Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John F.; and Ahmed, Akhter. 2019. Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Postprogram evidence from rural Bangladesh. Review of Economics and Statistics 101(5): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00791
• Buller, Ana Maria; Peterman, Amber; Ranganathan, Meghna; Bleile, Alexandra; Hidrobo, Melissa; Heise, Lori. 2018. A mixed-method review of cash transfers and intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries. The World Bank Research Observer 33(2): 218-258. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lky002
• Heath, Rachel; Hidrobo, Melissa; and Roy, Shalini. 2018. Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1785. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15738coll2/id/133031
• Hidrobo, Melissa; Peterman, Amber; and Heise, Lori. 2016. The effect of cash, vouchers, and food transfers on intimate partner violence: Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8(3): 284–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.20150048
• Buller, Anna Maria; Hidrobo, Melissa; Peterman, Amber; and Heise, Lori. 2016. The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach? A mixed methods study on causal mechanisms through which cash and in-kind food transfers decreased intimate partner violence. BMC Public Health 16:488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3129-3
• Peterman A, Neijhoft A, Cook S & T Palermo (2017). Understanding the linkages between social safety nets and childhood violence: A review of the evidence from low- and middle-income countries. Health Policy & Planning 32(7): 1049-1071. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czx033
• Peterman A, Palermo T, Handa S & D Seidenfeld on behalf of the CGP Evaluation Team (2018). List randomization for soliciting experience of intimate partner violence: Application to the evaluation of Zambia’s unconditional Child Grant Program. Health Economics 27(3): 622-628. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3588
• Buller, Ana Maria; Peterman, Amber; Ranganathan, Meghna; Bleile, Alexandra; Hidrobo, Melissa; Heise, Lori. 2018. A mixed-method review of cash transfers and intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries. The World Bank Research Observer 33(2): 218-258. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lky002
• Roy, Shalini; Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John F.; Koch, Bastien; and Ahmed, Akhter. Can transfers and complementary nutrition programming reduce intimate partner violence four years post-program? Experimental evidence from Bangladesh. Journal of Human Resources. Article in press. First published on June 10, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0720-11014R2
• Gavrilovic M, Rubio M, Bastagli F, Hinton R, Staab S, Goulder RG, Bilo C, Khan R, Peterman A, Diallo B, Alfers L, Santiago A, Rizvi Z, Holmes R, Mejia JGJ & Tabbush C (2022). Gender-responsive social protection post—COVID-19 Science 375(6585): 111-1113. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm5922
• Blofield M, Kunal FM, Calderón R, Peterman A, Franzoni JM, O’Donnell M & Bustreo F (2022). A diagonal and social protection ‘plus’ approach to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 syndemic: Linking cash transfers and intimate partner violence interventions in Latin America. The Lancet Global Health 10(1): E148-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00444-7
• Palermo, Tia; Barrington, Clare; Buller, Ana Marie; Heise, Lori; Hidrobo, Melissa; Ranganathan, Meghna; and Roy, Shalini. 2022. Global research into cash transfers to prevent intimate partner violence. Lancet Global Health 10(4): E475. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00038-9
• Ranganathan, Meghna; Pichon, Marjorie; Hidrobo, Melissa; Tambet, Heleene; Sintayehu, Wastina; Tadesse, Seifu; and Buller, Ana Maria. 2022. Government of Ethiopia’s public works and complementary programmes: A mixed-methods study on pathways to reduce intimate partner violence. Social Science and Medicine 294(February 2022): 114708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114708
• Palermo T, Prencipe L, Kajula L for the Tanzania Cash Plus Evaluation Team. (2021). Effects of Government-Implemented Cash Plus Model on Violence Experiences and Perpetration Among Adolescents in Tanzania, 2018-2019 American Journal of Public Health 111(12): 2227-2238. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306509

 

Webinars & Presentations

• Setting the stage: Cash transfer and intimate partner violence
• Violence against children: INSPIRE webinar series – Income and economic strengthening
• Social protection and violence against women and girls in the Indo-Pacific region
• Effects of cash transfers on protection and wellbeing outcomes for women and children
• Webinar: Cash transfer programs and intimate partner violence – Lessons from 3 case studies around the globe
• Leveraging Cash Transfers to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence at Scale (A CSW 63 SIDE EVENT) and full video recording
• Cash transfers and intimate partner violence: Case studies Ethiopia and Ghana and (slides) (full video recording)

Media Coverage (Selected)

• Some ideas for reducing violence against women (The Economist)
• How to protect women from violence under lockdowns (African Arguments)
• Can A Woman’s Rising Social Status Bring Down Rates of Domestic Violence? (NPR)
• Cash transfers prove effective in reducing violence against women: IFPRI study (Bangladesh Financial Express)
• How a $50-a-year nutrition program cut domestic violence in Bangladesh (Vox)
• The transformative power of giving young women cash (Quartz)