additionally many ct programs target women as the main beneficiary thus potentially affecting power dynamics within the household to model these power dynamics economists use variants of nonunitary household bargaining models in which an increase in a woman s income either earned or unearned as with a ct may decrease violence by improving her bargaining power within the household farmer tiefenthaler tauchen et al however variants of the bargaining model also predict that an increase in women s resources may put a woman at increased risk of ipv if men feel threatened and use violence to reassert authority in the relationship eswaran malhotra