Deck 3: Economics of Violence Against Women

Question 1

At what levels is communication needed to protect women from violence?

Answer 1

Protection requires communication and resources at the family, neighborhood, societal, and national level.

Question 2

In what ways does gender violence exist?

Answer 2

Gender-based violence manifests itself physically, emotionally, verbally, sexually, and financially and may include elements of threat, emotional abuse, isolation, financial abuse and control, sexual abuse, using children to gain control, and blame.

Question 3

What are the basic costs of preventing violence against women?

Answer 3

The monetary costs of preventing violence against women are from creating legislation, providing law enforcement, educating people about violence against women, and providing social services to women who are in danger. The nonmonetary costs are the opportunity costs of using resources to fight violence against women that could be used in other ways.

Question 4

What are the basic benefits of preventing violence against women?

Question 5

What is the largest group that perpetuates violence against women?

Question 6

What are some other names for violence against women?

Question 7

What is the difference between domestic violence and intimate partner violence?

Question 8

What is the biggest group of women who experience intimate partner violence?

Question 9

What is prevalence as it relates to violence against women?

Question 10

What is severity as it relates to violence against women?

Question 11

What is impact as it relates to violence against women?

Question 12

What are the six main categories of violence against women?

Question 13

What is physical violence and what are some types of physical violence?

Question 14

What is verbal violence and what are some examples of verbal violence?

Question 15

What is emotional or psychological violence and what are some types of emotional violence?

Question 16

What is sexual violence and what are some types of sexual violence?

Question 17

What is financial (or economic or material) violence?

Question 18

What are some other types of violence against women?

Question 19

What is the main legislation in the United States related to violence against women?

Question 20

What is the 1990 Clery Act?

Question 21

What are is the main legislation in the United Kingdom related to violence against women?

Question 22

What are some of the countries in which domestic violence was legal as of 2017?

Question 23

How does the 1974 United Nations Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict relate to violence against women?

Question 24

How does the 1976 U.N. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) relate to violence against women?

Question 25

How does the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) relate to violence against women?

Question 26

How does the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment relate to violence against women?

Question 27

What did the 1993 U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) succeed in getting passed that relates to violence against women?

Question 28

How does the 2000 U.N. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (OP-CEDAW) relate to violence against women?

Question 29

Who are the two main decision makers and some of the secondary decision makers related to violence against women?

Question 30

What are some ways a female may gain utility from an intimate partner relationship?

Question 31

What are some of the choices a perpetrator of violence against women makes?

Question 32

What are some reasons a person might use violence in an intimate partner relationship?

Question 33

What are some aspects of disutility a female victim of violence may have?

Question 34

What are some of the choices a female in a violent relationship may face?

Question 35

What are some reasons the female in a violent relationship may be reluctant to leave the relationship?

Question 36

What are the four sources of vulnerability of women, according to Hines and Malley-Morrison (2004)?

Question 37

What are some of the limitations faced by decision makers outside of the violent relationship?

Question 38

Do income transfers to females increase or decrease violence against women?

Question 39

How do revolving door patterns affect models of violence against women?

Question 40

What are some of topics that describe the costs associated with of violence against women?

Question 41

What are direct tangible costs of violence against women?

Question 42

What are indirect tangible costs of violence against women?

Question 43

What are direct intangible costs of violence against women?

Question 44

What are indirect intangible costs of violence against women?

Question 45

What are some of the reasons a female may be resistant to leaving a violent intimate relationship?

Question 46

What is the ultimate cause of domestic violence?

Question 47

What are the benefit of violence against women to the perpetrator of the violence?

Question 48

How is Gary Becker's household bargaining model changed when violence against women becomes a factor in the model?

Question 49

Why does the household time allocation model assume that the male works full-time in-the labor market before the female enters the labor market?

Question 50

Why does the household time allocation model assume that the male works full-time in-the labor market before the female enters the labor market?

Question 51

What happens the household production function when the male's wage is increased?

Question 52

What happens the household production function when the female's wage is increased?

Question 53

What happens the household production function when the male's household productivity is increased?

Question 54

What happens the household production function when the female's household productivity is increased?

Question 55

What happens to the household production function if violence against women affects the female's labor market productivity?

Question 56

What happens to the household production function if violence against women affects the female's household productivity?

Question 57

What happens to the household production function if violence against women means that the male makes the choice about household consumption?

Question 58

How does violence against women affect the current economy of a town or city?

Question 59

How does violence against women affect the future economy of a town or city?

Question 60

What incentives might be useful in stopping the revolving door issue of women returning to violent relationships?

Question 61

What incentives might be useful in stopping the abuse of women by abusers in violent relationships?

Question 62

Does violence against women affect only the current household production function or also the future household production function?

Question 63

When is it efficient to allow violence against women to continue?