Inside the Kin Network: Consanguineous Marriage, Patriarchal Bargaining, and Women's Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Pakistan

[2607.02785] Inside the Kin Network: Consanguineous Marriage, Patriarchal Bargaining, and Women's Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Pakistan Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Economics > General Economics arXiv:2607.02785 (econ) [Submitted on 2 Jul 2026 ( v1 ), last revised 14 Aug 2026 (this version, v2)] Title: Inside the Kin Network: Consanguineous Marriage, Patriarchal Bargaining, and Women's Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Pakistan Authors: Sana Khalil , Angela Warner View a PDF of the paper titled Inside the Kin Network: Consanguineous Marriage, Patriarchal Bargaining, and Women's Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Pakistan, by Sana Khalil and Angela Warner View PDF Abstract: Women in Pakistan report greater acceptance of intimate partner violence (IPV) than men in several domestic situations. This study examines whether marital kinship structures are associated with women's attitudes toward IPV. Although consanguineous marriage is widespread in Pakistan, its relationship with women's acceptance of IPV remains poorly understood. We investigate whether marriage between blood relatives is associated with women's justification of IPV and whether this association varies between situations involving challenges to patriarchal authority and routine domestic responsibilities. Using nationally representative data on 15,065 ever-married women aged 15-49 from the 2017-18 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey, we estimate binary and ordered logistic regression models. We also use propensity-score matching, inverse probability weighting, kernel matching, radius matching, and Mahalanobis-distance matching to improve comparability between women in consanguineous and non-kin marriages based on observed characteristics. Consanguineous marriage is associated with greater acceptance of IPV in four of the five scenarios examined: going out without permission, refusing sexual intercourse, neglecting children, and arguing with a husband. No statistically significant association is found for burning food. Alternative matching methods produce similar patterns across the four scenarios. Education, household wealth, and participation in household decision-making are associated with lower acceptance of IPV, whereas prior experience of violence is associated with greater acceptance. Significant regional differences also suggest that local institutional and normative contexts shape attitudes toward IPV. Because the data are cross-sectional and matching addresses only observed differences, the findings should be interpreted as conditional associations rather than causal effects. Subjects: General Economics (econ.GN) Cite as: arXiv:2607.02785 [econ.GN] (or arXiv:2607.02785v2 [econ.GN] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.02785 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Sana Khalil [ view email ] [v1] Thu, 2 Jul 2026 21:34:16 UTC (672 KB) [v2] Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:31:44 UTC (668 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Inside the Kin Network: Consanguineous Marriage, Patriarchal Bargaining, and Women's Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Pakistan, by Sana Khalil and Angela Warner View PDF view license Current browse context: econ.GN < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-07 Change to browse by: econ q-fin q-fin.EC References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... 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