Eugenia Frezza, a PhD Candidate in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, visited the NCID to give a seminar as part of the Job Market entitled "Accepting the unacceptable: Does intimate partner violence shape the tolerance of violence?".

She explained that her research analyse how the intimate partner violence has a causal effect on victims' tolerance towards it in a context where divorce is very costly.

It shows theoretically that tolerance to violence can serve as a coping mechanism, especially ...