TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Anderberg, Dan
AU  - Rainer, Helmut
AU  - Wadsworth, Jonathan
AU  - Wilson, Tanya
        TI  - Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence
        PY  - 2013/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7515
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7515
        AB  - Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally disaggregated labor market data from the UK's Annual Population Survey, we find strong evidence in support of the theoretical prediction.
        KW  - domestic violence
KW  - unemployment
        ER  -