Clay Collins
Welcome to my website! I am n assistant professor of Sport Management at the University of Georgia. I am a sports economist who specializes in emotional cues, the economic and noneconomic benefits of sporting events, and sports and crime; but I also do research in public economics, tourism economics, and economic analysis of crime. My job market paper examines externalities caused from U.S. presidential elections. I find that an unfavorable election result increases the rate of intimate partner violence- regardless if the election outcome is expected or not.
Emotional Cues, Election Outcomes, and Intimate Partner Violence (Job Market Paper)
Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and U. S. presidential election outcomes. This paper makes two contributions to the existing literature. First, it expands the emotional cue literature following Card and Dahl (2011) by examining a novel emotional trigger: election outcomes. Second, it provides an economic investigation of election stresses found in the psychology and political science literature. By interacting with the margin of victory for each state, I find large and significant decreases in IPV in states that vote for the winning candidate. I also find this effect can vary substantially between elections, with the most prominent results found during the 2000 presidential election.