We examine the effect of spousal beliefs about violence as a justified behaviour on the incidence of intimate partner violence using nationally representative survey data for India. Utilizing an Instrumental Variable approach, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in individual’s exposure to parental violence as instruments to identify the causal effects. We find that both women’s and men’s inherent beliefs justifying “wife beating” exposes women to a higher probability of IPV compared to their counterparts who do not justify such behaviour respectively. Furthermore, the marginal effect of a woman’s beliefs appear to be greater than that of men’s beliefs thereof.

我们使用印度全国代表性的调查数据，研究了关于配偶信仰的暴力行为对亲密伴侣暴力事件发生率的正当行为的影响。通过使用工具变量方法，我们将个人暴露于父母暴力中的外在变化看似合理，以此作为确定因果关系的工具。我们发现，使“殴打妻子”成为正当的男女固有信念相比，没有为这种行为辩护的同龄人，使妇女遭受IPV的可能性更高。此外，女人的信仰的边际效应似乎大于男人的信仰的边际效应。