背景(考古学)
家庭暴力
社会心理学
人为因素与人体工程学
辍学
毒物控制
承诺装置
经济
犯罪学
自杀预防
心理学
人口经济学
微观经济学
医学
医疗急救
生物
古生物学
激励
作者
Anna Aizer,Pedro Dal Bó
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.09.011
摘要
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.
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