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Economic Drivers of Domestic Violence among Women: A Case Study of Ghana

Economic Drivers of Domestic Violence among Women: A Case Study of Ghana

James Atta Peprah, Isaac Koomson
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466646391|ISBN10: 146664639X|EISBN13: 9781466646407
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4639-1.ch013
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Peprah, James Atta, and Isaac Koomson. "Economic Drivers of Domestic Violence among Women: A Case Study of Ghana." Globalization and Governance in the International Political Economy, edited by Ümit Hacioğlu and Hasan Dinçer, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 166-183. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4639-1.ch013

APA

Peprah, J. A. & Koomson, I. (2014). Economic Drivers of Domestic Violence among Women: A Case Study of Ghana. In Ü. Hacioğlu & H. Dinçer (Eds.), Globalization and Governance in the International Political Economy (pp. 166-183). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4639-1.ch013

Chicago

Peprah, James Atta, and Isaac Koomson. "Economic Drivers of Domestic Violence among Women: A Case Study of Ghana." In Globalization and Governance in the International Political Economy, edited by Ümit Hacioğlu and Hasan Dinçer, 166-183. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4639-1.ch013

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Abstract

Violence against women seems to be more of an economic than a sociological problem. In Ghana, no study has investigated the economic causes of domestic violence against women. The chapter seeks to investigate the economic factors that are likely to drive domestic violence among married couples. The study uses a survey of 260 married women from selected communities around the University of Cape Coast. Due to the nature of the measurement of domestic violence, the study adopts the binary logit model to estimate the key economic variables that affect the likelihood of being subjected to domestic violence. Average income, property ownership, economic activities, and their interactions seem to drive domestic violence after controlling for some household covariates. It is found that income and a combination of being economically engaged and owning an asset significantly affected domestic violence at their desired level of significance. Stemming from this, the authors call on the appropriate authorities to make credit facilities available to women to enable them to be economically engaged. Empowering women through the provision of micro-credit facilities has the potential to reduce the economic dimensions of domestic violence.

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