Paying for Violence? Spousal Abuse and Son Preference in India
利用印度2005-2006年全国家庭健康调查数据，发现家庭暴力与子女状况之间存在令人费解的相关性：当只有父亲偏好儿子时，女孩比男孩处境更好；而当只有母亲偏好儿子时，性别差异则相反。研究通过非合作博弈理论框架解释这一现象。
We find a puzzling correlation in the data on domestic violence and children’s outcomes in India. Using the 2005–2006 National Family and Health Survey, we see that girls in families experiencing spousal violence are less worse off than boys when only fathers report a son preference while the gender bias reverses when only mothers report having a son preference. To shed light on the puzzle in the data, we present a non-cooperative theoretical framework based in economic theories of domestic violence, whereby differing parental son preference and bargaining over investments in girl and boy children potentially explains the observed relationship.