Experimental Evidence on Combatting Persistent Community Norms Around Intimate Partner Violence Through Protective Local Policies and Women’s Empowerment in Rural Kenya

• In Event: The Politics of Violence Against Women

Brief Overview

Due to social desirability bias, rigorous evidence documenting intimate partner violence and evaluating interventions to curb it is difficult to obtain. This project leverages unique survey experiments conducted in Kenya that overcome this bias.

Author

• Kelly Hunter, Northwestern University