Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile
Abstract Despite increased global attention on violence against women, understanding the factors that lead to women becoming victims remains a critical challenge. Notably, the impact of domestic violence on women’s mobility—a critical determinant of their social and economic independence—has remaine...
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| author | Hugo Contreras Cristian Candia Rodrigo Troncoso Leo Ferres Loreto Bravo Bruno Lepri Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert |
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| description | Abstract Despite increased global attention on violence against women, understanding the factors that lead to women becoming victims remains a critical challenge. Notably, the impact of domestic violence on women’s mobility—a critical determinant of their social and economic independence—has remained largely unexplored. This study bridges this gap, employing police records to quantify physical and psychological domestic violence, while leveraging mobile phone data to proxy women’s mobility. Our analyses reveal a negative correlation between physical violence and female mobility, an association that withstands robustness checks, including controls for economic independence variables like education, employment, and occupational segregation, bootstrapping of the data set, and applying a generalized propensity score matching identification strategy. The study emphasizes the potential causal role of physical violence on decreased female mobility, asserting the value of interdisciplinary research in exploring such multifaceted social phenomena to open avenues for preventive measures. The implications of this research extend into the realm of public policy and intervention development, offering new strategies to combat and ultimately eradicate domestic violence against women, thereby contributing to wider efforts toward gender equity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-305ff12a0a4840059daa4897f62c9c8c2023-12-10T12:10:50ZengSpringerOpenEPJ Data Science2193-11272023-12-0112111810.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00430-5Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in ChileHugo Contreras0Cristian Candia1Rodrigo Troncoso2Leo Ferres3Loreto Bravo4Bruno Lepri5Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert6Centro de Investigación en Complejidad Social (CICS), Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del DesarrolloCentro de Investigación en Complejidad Social (CICS), Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del DesarrolloCentro de Políticas Públicas, Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del DesarrolloInstituto de Data Science, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del DesarrolloInstituto de Data Science, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad del DesarrolloFondazione Bruno KesslerCentro de Investigación en Complejidad Social (CICS), Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del DesarrolloAbstract Despite increased global attention on violence against women, understanding the factors that lead to women becoming victims remains a critical challenge. Notably, the impact of domestic violence on women’s mobility—a critical determinant of their social and economic independence—has remained largely unexplored. This study bridges this gap, employing police records to quantify physical and psychological domestic violence, while leveraging mobile phone data to proxy women’s mobility. Our analyses reveal a negative correlation between physical violence and female mobility, an association that withstands robustness checks, including controls for economic independence variables like education, employment, and occupational segregation, bootstrapping of the data set, and applying a generalized propensity score matching identification strategy. The study emphasizes the potential causal role of physical violence on decreased female mobility, asserting the value of interdisciplinary research in exploring such multifaceted social phenomena to open avenues for preventive measures. The implications of this research extend into the realm of public policy and intervention development, offering new strategies to combat and ultimately eradicate domestic violence against women, thereby contributing to wider efforts toward gender equity.https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00430-5MobilityViolenceDomestic violenceWomen |
| spellingShingle | Hugo Contreras Cristian Candia Rodrigo Troncoso Leo Ferres Loreto Bravo Bruno Lepri Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile EPJ Data Science Mobility Violence Domestic violence Women |
| title | Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile |
| title_full | Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile |
| title_fullStr | Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile |
| title_short | Linking physical violence to women’s mobility in Chile |
| title_sort | linking physical violence to women s mobility in chile |
| topic | Mobility Violence Domestic violence Women |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00430-5 |
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