Gordon B. Dahl

Deterring Domestic Violence

While visiting CESifo, Gordon Dahl will be working on a project titled “Deterrence of Backlash? The Effect of Arrest on the Dynamics of Domestic Violence.” This is joint work with three researchers affiliated with the ifo Institute: Helmut Rainer, Sofia Amaral and Victoria Endl-Geyer, who has been a visiting scholar at UC San Diego to facilitate work on this joint project. The project uses detailed administrative data on hundreds of thousands of domestic violence incidents in Great Britain and leverages systematic differences across police officers in their propensity to arrest suspected batterers. Preliminary evidence suggests that arrests help to break the cycle of repeat domestic violence.

Mr. Dahl's research interests are in labor economics and applied microeconomics, including a wide set of issues that range from how income affects child achievement, to peer effects among coworkers and family members, to the impact of incarceration on recidivism and employment, to intergenerational links in welfare use. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Gordon Dahl is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is Fellow of the CESifo Research Network, the Area Director for Labor Economics, and a Research Professor at the ifo Institute. He is also an Affiliated Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, an NBER Research Associate, a CEPR Research Fellow, an IZA Research Fellow, and a Fellow of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. Gordon Dahl was previously a faculty member at the University of Rochester and has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Princeton University, University of Copenhagen, University of Stockholm, University College London, and Norwegian School of Economics. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1998 and his BA. from Brigham Young University.