Love, hate and murder
Subtitle: commitment devices in violent relationships
By: Anna Aizer, Pedro Dal B©đ
Contributors: Dal Bó, Pedro, 1971-; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13492; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13492.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "Many violent relationships are characterized by a high degree of cyclicality: women who are the victims of domestic 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 women in violent relationships display time inconsistent preferences by examining their demand for commitment devices.  We find that "no-drop" policies -- which compel the prosecutor to continue with prosecution even if the victim expresses a desire to drop the charges -- result in an increase in reporting.  No-drop policies also result in a decrease in the number of men murdered by intimates suggesting that some women in violent relationships move away from an extreme type of commitment device when a less costly one is offered"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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