Arbeitspapier

The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning About the Match

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when they cannot directly observe whether a given male partner is of a violent type or not. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The results indicate that uncertainty about a partner's abusive type creates incentives for women to delay fertility, reduce fertility overall, divorce more often and increase labour supply. We also study the impact of higher female wages, income support to single mothers, and subsidized childcare when the mother is working. While higher wages reduce women's overall exposure to abuse, both income support and subsidized childcare fail to do so because they encourage early fertility. Income support also leads to less accumulated labour market experience and hence higher abuse rates.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14442

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Thema
domestic violence
learning
fertility
ALSPAC

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Anderberg, Dan
Mantovan, Noemi
Sauer, Robert M.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Anderberg, Dan
  • Mantovan, Noemi
  • Sauer, Robert M.
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2021

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