Paying a Second Price: Investigating Long-Term Influences of Intimate Partner Violence on Women’s Financial Attainment

Abstract

This paper uses a life course perspective to examine the association between intimate partner victimization of women (particularly sexual victimization) after adolescence and economic attainment in adulthood. It hypothesizes that the long term financial effects of intimate partner sexual violence are partially masked when physical and sexual intimate partner violence are analyzed together. This hypothesis was supported by the data.