Family Types and Intimate Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Tur-Prats, Ana
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Merced
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00784
• 发表日期: 2019-12
• 页码: 878-891
• 关键词: domestic violence; gender-roles; origins; gap

摘要

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.