partner violence, and construct a theory to explain them. Transfers to women averaging USD 709 reduced physical and sexual … violence (-0:26, -0:22 standard deviations). Transfers to men reduced physical violence (-0:18 SD). We find spillovers …: physical violence towards non-recipient women in treatment villages decreased (-0:16 SD). We show theoretically that transfers …

violence often leave and return multiple times. To explain this we develop a model of time inconsistent preferences in the … context of domestic violence. This time inconsistency generates a demand for commitment. We present supporting evidence that …

Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative … relationship between the price of alcohol, which determines consumption, and violence towards spouses. The data come from the 1985 …

In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence … violence appears to lead to a heavy-tailed error distribution. Our empirical results suggest that increases in the assailants …(i.e. the male's) income serve to increase violence, while increases in the proportion of the year that he is employed serve to …

Family violence is a pervasive and costly problem, yet there is no consensus on how to interpret the phenomenon of … violence by one family member against another. Some analysts assume that violence has an instrumental role in intra-family … using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …

annually. While much is known about the impact of domestic violence and other family problems on children within the home …It is estimated that between ten and twenty percent of children in the United States are exposed to domestic violence …, little is known regarding the extent to which these problems spill over to children outside the family. The widespread …

Domestic violence remains a major public policy concern despite two decades of policy intervention. To eliminate police … inaction in response to domestic violence, many states have passed mandatory arrest laws, which require the police to arrest … abusers when a domestic violence incident is reported. These laws were justified by a randomized experiment in Minnesota which …

This paper proposes and analyzes an intergenerational model of domestic violence (IMDV) in which behavioral strategies … individuals who grew up in violent homes. The IMDV calls attention to three features neglected in the domestic violence literature …. The first is the marriage market. If some men are more likely than others to be violent as husbands and some women are …