The seminar will be held via Teams on November 20th from 3pm - 4:15pm (contact: bs-research@abdn.ac.uk for link).
Join Dr Sonia Oreffice, Professor of Economics at University of Exeter. Professor Oreffice’s research fields are Family Economics, Gender Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics.
Abstract:
“Intimate partner violence is a pervasive phenomenon, and (non-fatal) strangulation is a common form of intimate partner violence perpetrated by men, often serving as a precursor to homicide. We use data from the FBI Supplementary Homicide Reports from 1990-2019, which record the victim’s relationship to their murderer, along with our novel comprehensive taxonomy of state strangulation laws, to provide the first estimates of how intimate partner homicides of men and women are affected by the staggered implementation of these laws in the United States. Employing TWFE models estimated by both OLS and a Two-Stage procedure to account for potential biases due to heterogeneous effects, we find sizable drops in intimate partner homicides among both men and women. With NBRIS and CDC data, we find corroborating evidence that these strangulation laws increased the number of male arrests and decreased women’s suicides. We explore mechanisms.”
- Speaker
- Dr Sonia Oreffice
- Hosted by
- University of Aberdeen Business School