Measuring IPV

"Motherhood and Domestic Violence" (working paper coming soon)

Sanna Bergvall and Nuria Rodríguez-Planas 

Using Swedish longitudinal population-wide hospital records data from 2001 to 2026, stacked Difference in Differences, and different measures of domestic violence than with crime data, we show that violence decreases with pregnancy. We reconcile this singular outcome with the "increase in IPV" found by previous authors, and identify the mechanisms driving this drop in violence.