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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence in 11 countries with different ex-ante incidence of … domestic violence (DV) and lockdown intensity. We use a novel measure of DV incidents that allows us to make cross …
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calls to the police and to the hotline. Our results highlight the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic across DV measures …Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of … the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both …
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). Data through June 2020 shows that the pandemic's impact on domestic violence reports varied significantly across countries … and police complaints fell (especially in the first weeks of the pandemic). Significantly distinct patterns are observed … consistent with the pandemic changing the relative incidence of different types of violence and altering the perceived costs of …
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response to Covid-19 in New Zealand for six crime types in six cities. We then use the estimated models to forecast … counterfactual crime trajectories. Novel elements include cleanly defined lockdown periods, two distinct lockdowns with meaningful …
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, we use national municipal-level crime data from Mexico's National Public Security System. The NPSS reports sexual crimes …, lapses in alimony, domestic violence, and femicides. Using the NPSS, we track monthly changes in crimes targeting women using … an event-study design. Our results show that lapses in alimony, sexual crimes, and domestic violence follow a U …
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Objective: To investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on conventional crime and organized crime in Mexico City …, Mexico.Methods: Mexico City’s Attorney General’s Office reported crime data, covering domestic violence, burglary, robbery … in conventional crime during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized crime remains steady. These findings have policy …
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Globally, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has sparked unexpected and violent outbursts against doctors …, nurses, and other health personnel. In the Indian context, studies on violence against doctors and other medical staff … violence against medical personnel partly, we argue that it is largely rooted in a lack of trust in doctors and hospitals …
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micro-level simulation model, which combines a multisectoral closed economy with an epidemic transmission model. In … pandemic dynamics in Germany in the first six months after the COVID-19 outbreak. We show that a policy inducing switches … pandemic is substantially lower under these policies. Keeping the other policy parameters fixed, a variation of the consumption …
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