Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi

The research protocol for this study was approved by the IRBs of UCSC, the University of Liberia, and the Malawi National Committee on Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (NCRSH). We thank USAID and IPA for funding. We are grateful to Jenny Aker for her collaboration. For organizing the data collection, we thank Joseph Davis, Arja Dayal, Wilson Dorleleay, Walker Higgins, Andreas Holzinger, Erik Jorgensen, Teresa Martens, Laura McCargo and Camelia Vasilov at IPA Liberia, and Patrick Baxter, Emanuele Clemente, Calvin Mhango, Monica Shandal, Patrick Simbewe, and Asman Suleiman at IPA Malawi. We are extremely grateful to all the enumerators in both countries, though there are too many to list individually. We thank seminar participants at IFPRI, UCSC and the IPA/GPRL Methods and Measurement Conference for helpful comments. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of USAID, the World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.