Thesis advisor: Paul Cichello / Domestic violence affects women of all socioeconomic and educational backgrounds across the world. It violates fundamental human rights and also has significant economic costs including a loss of human capital formation. This study seeks to understand the impact of a mother's experience of domestic violence on her children's early childhood development and educational outcomes in Uganda. It uses data from the 2016 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey and employs a two-stage least squares instrumental variables approach. The instrument used is whether or not the woman's mother experienced domestic violence. Results are not precisely estimated but they suggest that experiencing domestic violence increases the incidence of low socioemotional development in women’s 3-to-5-year-old children while it decreases the incidence of low cognitive development. This suggests that living in a household with violence causes children to have worse social and emotional early childhood development while it improves their cognition and/or independence. Results from the educational models suggest that exposure to domestic violence increases a child’s likelihood of being enrolled in school as well as his overall years of educational attainment. Taken together, results suggest that children in homes with domestic violence might cope by becoming more independent. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2019. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Economics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_108449 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Andersen, Margaret |
| Publisher | Boston College |
| Source Sets | Boston College |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, thesis |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted. |
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