Background Despite the widely acknowledged impacts of climate change, the effect of climate change on women’s health remains underexplored in quantitative scientific research. This study investigates how climate hazards, and specifically landslides, influence intimate partner violence (IPV) and explores the broader implications of these findings for future research and understanding of IPV risk. Methods Drawing on nationally representative data from 1993 to 2019 from 156 different countries, this study used a two-way fixed effects model to predict IPV based on climate shocks, gender inequality indices (GII), and national economic indicators. Using this model, this study assesses the role of climate, economic, and social factors on IPV estimates while adjusting for skewed distributions and weighted effects. Results The final model revealed a significant relationship between landslides and IPV, where an increase in landslide risk is associated with an increase in IPV (β = 0.136, p = 0.0424). In addition, gender inequality had a significant positive association with IPV (β = 22.876, p = 0.00016). Conclusions Landslides, although not typically the focus of climate and IPV-related studies, have significant economic consequences for agricultural output and property damage, and therefore may serve as an important measure of climate change’s impact on household instability. With climate change worsening and directly impacting landslides, as well as indirectly impacting factors like GDP, these results demonstrate the need for research and policy decisions to reflect the increasing economic consequences of climate change through landslides and its implications for IPV and women’s health.
Kate Kang (Fri,) studied this question.