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SUMMARY:The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships - Professor Abigail Adams-Pr
 assl (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Domestic abuse is a common yet complex phenomenon. We use the 
 universe of police reports filed in Finland since 2006\, matched to rich r
 egister data\, to identify the impact of cohabiting with an abusive spouse
  on labour market outcomes. We show that women’s labour market outcomes 
 worsen significantly upon cohabitation\, even if physical violence is only
  reported a number of years later. Using a within-individual across-relati
 onship design and a matched control event study design\, we rule out that 
 this deterioration is due to negative labour market shocks that cause wome
 n to enter into bad relationships or due to income effects deriving from c
 ohabitation. We build a model of coercive control that rationalises these 
 findings. In the model\, women have imperfect information about their part
 ner’s type and abusive spouses have an incentive to strategically suppre
 ss women’s labour supply to reduce her outside option. The model yields 
 new insights into the role of break-up for determining exposure to abusive
  partners. Taking the predictions of the model to data leads to a policy r
 elevant reinterpretation of previous findings about the relationship betwe
 en women’s outside options and the prevalence of domestic violence. \nSp
 eakers:\nProfessor Abigail Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Seminar Room A)\, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d71acd87-c6a7-4c5d-b0be-714bf1fde22b/
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