PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Papageorge, Nicholas W.
AU  - Pauley, Gwyn C.
AU  - Cohen, Mardge
AU  - Wilson, Tracey E.
AU  - Hamilton, Barton H.
AU  - Pollak, Robert A.
TI  - Health, Human Capital, and Domestic Violence
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.56.4.1115-7543R5
DP  - 2021 Oct 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 997--1030
VI  - 56
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/4/997.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/4/997.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2021 Oct 02; 56
AB  - We treat health as a form of human capital and hypothesize that women with more human capital face stronger incentives to make costly investments with future payoffs, such as avoiding abusive partners and reducing drug use. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the unanticipated introduction of an HIV treatment, HAART, which dramatically improved HIV+ women’s health. We find that after the introduction of HAART HIV+ women who experienced increases in expected longevity exhibited a decrease in domestic violence of 15 percent and in drug use of 15–20 percent. We rule out confounding via secular trends using a control group of healthier women.