Tesis
Assessing the impact of commuting on family violence
Fecha
2022-06Autor
Rossi, Martín A.
Institución
Resumen
I study the impact of commuting time on family violence. To avoid potential endogeneity concerns, I exploit the
exogenous variation in the commuting time provided by car accidents. Using US county-level data, I find that
when a car accident that increases commuting time occurs, the number of family violence reported cases during
the following hours decreases. I argue that the underlying mechanisms that may explain this relationship are
physical tiredness and time allocation. Keywords: family violence, commuting, car accidents, physical tiredness, time allocation.