Domestic violence and football in Glasgow : are reference points relevant?

Dickson, Alex and Jennings, Colin and Koop, Gary (2016) Domestic violence and football in Glasgow : are reference points relevant? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 78 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1468-0084 (https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12105)

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Abstract

A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit loss aversion – the displeasure from suffering a loss is larger than the pleasure enjoyed from an equivalent-sized gain – and that expectations are important in determining what is perceived as a loss. Recent research suggests that disappointing results in sporting fixtures relative to prematch expectations play an important role in triggering domestic violence (Card and Dahl, 2011), consistent with the idea of loss aversion around expectations-based reference points. This paper seeks to investigate whether such behaviour is exhibited by football fans in Glasgow by looking at the relationship between match outcomes relative to expectations and levels of domestic violence using a data set that contains every domestic violence incident in Glasgow over a period of more than eight years. Whilst we find that when the ‘Old-Firm’ Glasgow rivals Celtic and Rangers play there are large increases in domestic violence (regardless of the outcome of the match), in other matches disappointing results relative to expectations are not linked to increased domestic violence, except when those matches occur at the very end of the season where the title is still being contended.

ORCID iDs

Dickson, Alex ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9386-9036, Jennings, Colin and Koop, Gary ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6091-378X;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:53948
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    1 February 2016
    Published
    23 June 2015
    Published Online
    19 June 2015
    Accepted
    Notes:This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dickson, A., Jennings, C. and Koop, G. (2015), Domestic Violence and Football in Glasgow: Are Reference Points Relevant?. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. doi: 10.1111/obes.12105, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obes.12105. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Economics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:10 Aug 2015 11:27
    Last modified:19 Nov 2024 01:07
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/53948
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