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Family Types and Intimate Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective

Author(s) -

Ana Tur-Prats

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

the review of economics and statistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 8.999

H-Index - 165

eISSN - 1530-9142

pISSN - 0034-6535

DOI - 10.1162/rest_a_00784

Subject(s) - domestic violence , wife , perspective (graphical) , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , nuclear family , demographic economics , family law , criminology , human factors and ergonomics , social psychology , sociology , demography , psychology , poison control , law , political science , economics , medicine , biology , medical emergency , biochemistry , artificial intelligence , computer science , gene

This paper examines the long-term determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) by analyzing its relationship with traditional family structures: stem families in which one child stays in the parental household and nuclear families in which all children leave the household upon marriage. My hypothesis is that coresidence with a mother-in-law increases a wife's contribution to nondomestic work, which may decrease the level of violence. I find that areas where stem families were socially predominant in the past currently have a lower IPV rate, and use differences in inheritance laws in medieval times as an instrument for the different family types.

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