Who’s your Neighbour? Social Influences on Domestic Violence
利用印度全国家庭健康调查数据，研究发现邻里家庭暴力水平每提高一个标准差，家庭内遭受暴力的概率增加0.2个标准差，表明家庭暴力不仅受家庭内部因素影响，也受邻里环境驱动。
We examine the impact of neighbourhood physical domestic violence on the likelihood of being exposed to physical abuse within a household using nationally representative data from the fourth wave of the National Family Health Survey of India. To address potential endogeneity issues in analysing neighbourhood influences, we utilise an instrumental variables approach that compares households in the same state but different neighbourhoods. Using exogenous variation in neighbouring women’s exposure to parental violence in her natal family as an instrument for average neighbourhood domestic violence, we find that a 1 standard deviation increase in neighbourhood domestic violence leads to a 0.2 standard deviation increase in the probability of domestic violence within a household. We establish that domestic violence is not only driven by intra-household factors but also observable changes at a neighbourhood level.