Keeping the peace whilst getting your way: Information, persuasion and intimate partner violence
Dan Anderberg,
Rachel Cassidy,
Wendy Janssens
et al.
Abstract:We study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by women only, men only, or both, relevant to a high-stakes joint household decision. We model communication between spouses as Bayesian persuasion where disagreements elevate the risk of IPV. Our framework predicts that IPV will be lower when only one spouse is informed, compared to when both are, as the opportunity for persuasion by one spouse leads to more agreement. To test the model's predictions we leverage an existing ra… Show more
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