domestic violence laws, which protect women from physical and sexual abuse in the household. …I explore a unique exogenous instrument to examine how the intra-familial position of women influence health outcomes … technique, I build a model of household bargaining and child health development with perceptions of women regarding wife …

topics covered: • The intersection of women’s health and poverty. • Poverty, personal experiences of violence, and mental … social problems as they affect the lives of low-income women. A robust source of both empirical findings and first …-person descriptions by poor women of their living conditions, it exposes cyclical patterns of structural and environmental stressors …