The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning About the Match

Anderberg, Dan; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M.

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“…The correlation between individual level female employment and IPV is generally positive in Sub-Saharan Africa (Guarnieri and Rainer, 2018) and even more so in areas with higher acceptance of abuse (Cools and Kotsadam 2017), and in countries with less gender equality (Heise and Kotsadam 2015). The literature using quasi experimental designs has found that local level female employment reduces abuse in the US and the UK (Aizer, 2010;Anderberg et al, 2016), and increases abuse in Mexico (Davila, 2018) and in areas of Spain with stronger male breadwinner norms (Tur-Prats, 2017).…”

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“…1 We mainly use the terms IPV or abuse in this paper and we take it to mean physical (including sexual) and emotional violence against women perpetrated by their partners. 2 The US (Aizer 2010), Spain (Tur-Prats 2017), Sweden (Ericsson, 2020), the UK (Anderberg et al 2016), Mexico (Davila, 2018), Turkey (Erten andKeskin, 2021), andIndia (Amaral et al, 2015;Chin, 2012).…”

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“…23 We also tested whether there was a difference in effects between those that had ever been abused or not. In the theoretical model of Anderberg et al (2016), such a situation offers the most interesting case in terms of revealing information about husband type. The prediction is that men will be less likely to signal that they are of the abusive type in situations where women have a better outside option.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They have also investigated the effects of interventions to reduce partner violence, such as female police stations (Amaral et al, 2018), mandatory arrest laws and no drop policies (Iyengar, 2009;Aizer and Dal Bo, 2009), gender and entrepreneurship training (Green et al, 2015;Bulte and Lensink, 2018), awareness raising (Villanger, 2020), and edutainment (Banerjee et al, 2018;Green et al, 2020). There is also a literature on the male motives of partner violence, focusing on expressive factors such as relieving frustration (Tauchen et al, 1991), information asymmetries and signaling (Anderberg et al, 2018(Anderberg et al, , 2016, emotional cues (Card and Dahl, 2011) and instrumental reasons such as resource extraction (Bloch and Rao, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Kotsadam¹,

Villanger²

2022

J. Human Resources

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We identify the effects of employment on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) by collaborating with 27 large companies in Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase employment, total hours worked, income, earnings, and earnings shares within couples in the short and medium run but we find no effects on our main pre-registered outcome, physical IPV. In particular, we can reject relatively small positive increases of physical IPV. In the short run, job offers reduce emotional abuse by 26 percent.

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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Kotsadam¹,

Villanger²

2022

J. Human Resources

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“…Anderberg and Rainer (2013) develop a theoretical model of economic abuse in which abusers engage in acts of economic sabotage to cause their spouse to specialize in home production. Anderberg et al (2018) develops a dynamic model of women's behavior in violent relationships, including the breakup decision, where they learn their partner's type over time. Abuse is non-strategic in their framework and is modeled as arising probabilistically depending on an abusive man's age and his spouse's labor supply.…”

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The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships

Adams‐Prassl¹,

Huttunen²,

Nix³

et al. 2023

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Domestic abuse encompasses a range of damaging behaviours beyond physical violence, including economic and emotional abuse. This paper provides the first evidence on the impact of cohabiting with an abusive partner on victim's economic outcomes. In so doing, we highlight the systematic role played by economic suppression and coercive control in such relationships. Using administrative data and a matched control event study design, along with a within-individual comparison of outcomes across relationships, we document three new facts. First, women who begin relationships with (eventually) physically abusive men suffer large and significant earnings and employment falls immediately upon cohabiting with the abusive partner, which translates into a total household income loss. Second, this decline in economic outcomes is non-monotonic in women's pre-cohabitation outside options. Third, abusive men impose economic costs on all their female partners, even those who do not report physical violence. To rationalize these findings, we develop a new dynamic model of abusive relationships where women do not perfectly observe their partner's type, and abusive men have an incentive to use coercive control to sabotage women's outside options and their ability to later exit the relationship. We show that this model is consistent with all three empirical facts. We harness the model's predictions to revisit some classic results on domestic violence and show that the relationship between domestic violence and women's outside options is crucially linked to breakup dynamics.

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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children’s dynamic skill accumulation: evidence from a UK longitudinal study

Anderberg

Moroni

2020

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

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Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and children’s development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio-emotional skills, we find that exposure during pre-school years has a quantitatively important negative effect on socio-emotional skills among toddlers and negatively affects cognitive and social skills after the age of three. The estimated impact on cognitive development is consistent with measures of cognitive skills based on school-based tests.

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The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning About the Match

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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia

The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships

Exposure to intimate partner violence and children’s dynamic skill accumulation: evidence from a UK longitudinal study

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