Health, Human Capital, and Domestic Violence
将健康视为人力资本,利用HIV治疗HAART的引入作为外生冲击,发现预期寿命提高使HIV阳性女性遭受的家庭暴力减少15%,药物使用减少15-20%。
We treat health as a form of human capital and hypothesize that women with more human capital face stronger incentives to make costly investments with future payoffs, such as avoiding abusive partners and reducing drug use. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the unanticipated introduction of an HIV treatment, HAART, which dramatically improved HIV+ women's health. We find that after the introduction of HAART HIV+ women who experienced increases in expected longevity exhibited a decrease in domestic violence of 15% and in drug use of 1520%. We rule out confounding via secular trends using a control group of healthier women.