Wanted to hear your thoughts on two things in particular:
(1) The extent to which domestic violence DALYs are expected to decline in time (or not). For example, one might be optimistic in thinking along the lines of: economic development → greater female labour force participation → greater financial independence for women → less need for women to tolerate abusive partners given financial precarity → long term attitudinal changes in men towards internalizing the unacceptability of VAWG. On the other hand, one might be pessimistic that cultural attitudes always lag socioeconomic development, sometimes considerably. Does the research reveal anything useful in this regard?
(2) Generally, how do state/​legal/​policy-related interventions compare in cost-effectiveness, especially in a context where state institutions are weak and police/​judges may have fairly misogynist attitudes themselves (e.g. hostility to rape victims etc)?
Am definitely enthusiastic about researching this at CEARCH down the line.
2- There is a bit of work on policy related interventions in this space, which had mixed results and were harder to map the cost-effectiveness of. My impression is that opportunistic identification of potentially promising policies that are tractable may be cost-effective, but that solely focusing on this may not be (that is purely my thoughts based on a few hours of reading broadly around policy changes in the space, and without a thorough deep dive).
3- Great to hear you are interested in researching this. Always happy to share all my knowledge and information!
Great work, Akhil!
Wanted to hear your thoughts on two things in particular:
(1) The extent to which domestic violence DALYs are expected to decline in time (or not). For example, one might be optimistic in thinking along the lines of: economic development → greater female labour force participation → greater financial independence for women → less need for women to tolerate abusive partners given financial precarity → long term attitudinal changes in men towards internalizing the unacceptability of VAWG. On the other hand, one might be pessimistic that cultural attitudes always lag socioeconomic development, sometimes considerably. Does the research reveal anything useful in this regard?
(2) Generally, how do state/​legal/​policy-related interventions compare in cost-effectiveness, especially in a context where state institutions are weak and police/​judges may have fairly misogynist attitudes themselves (e.g. hostility to rape victims etc)?
Am definitely enthusiastic about researching this at CEARCH down the line.
Great questions Joel
1- SO my impression is from looking at : (1) trends in VAWG over time (unfortunately mostly old data here) (2) differences in rates of VAWG depending on level of country economic development, that it seems unlikely that VAWG will decrease (at all, or at least to a moderate extent) by itself.
2- There is a bit of work on policy related interventions in this space, which had mixed results and were harder to map the cost-effectiveness of. My impression is that opportunistic identification of potentially promising policies that are tractable may be cost-effective, but that solely focusing on this may not be (that is purely my thoughts based on a few hours of reading broadly around policy changes in the space, and without a thorough deep dive).
3- Great to hear you are interested in researching this. Always happy to share all my knowledge and information!