Intimate Partner Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence against women is a violation of human rights and among all forms of violence, intimate partner violence (IPV) is considered to be the most common form (Devries et al.). This issue is particularly salient in developing countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is estimated to have the highest rate of reported violence (Cools and Kotsadam). IPV adversely affects women’s health and also creates negative externalities such as fear of abuse and psychological stress for those who witness violence. The severity and negative consequences of IPV highlight the need to understand factors associated with the prevalence of IPV and the importance of proposing policy solutions to this issue. In this project, I used permutation tests and logistic regression to explore whether in DRC women’s probability of experiencing IPV is associated with the following four individual-level characteristics of women: employment status, property ownership, household wealth, years of education.

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