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Citation |
Tauchen HV, Witte AD, Sharon K. Long. Int. Econ. Rev. 1991; 32(2): 491-511. |
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(Copyright © 1991, Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons) |
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Abstract |
In this paper we develop and estimate a model of domestic violence. We extend a noncooperative model of the family to include violence as a source of gratification and an instrument for controlling behavior. We estimate the model by robust methods since the violence process appears to have a heavy-tailed, nonnormal error distribution. We find that the properties of the equilibria depend on family income. For low/middle income families, our results indicate an equilibrium in which one person's reservation utility constraint is binding, whereas for higher income families both individuals may gain from the relationship. |