TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Domestic Violence: A Nonrandom Affair
JO  - International economic review
A1  - Tauchen, Helen V.
A1  - Witte, Ann Dryden
A1  - Sharon K. Long, 
SP  - 491
EP  - 511
VL  - 32
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 0020-6598
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2526888
ID  - ref1
ER  -