Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of …

This article examines changes in the frequency and characteristics of domestic violence reports after the start of the … sources: calls to domestic violence hotlines (for the City of Buenos Aires in Argentina, Colombia, and Peru); calls to …). Data through June 2020 shows that the pandemic's impact on domestic violence reports varied significantly across countries …

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 …

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 …

exercising of state power and structural violence that has created a weak health system which cannot rapidly restructure and …

and its economic consequences on domestic violence has surged. This paper disentangles the effect of forced coexistence … and economic stress on intimate partner violence. Using an online survey data set, we find a 23% increase of intimate … partner violence during the lockdown. Our results indicate that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the …

This study considers whether domestic violence increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City. We use two … separate data sources to study this question--domestic violence call-center calls and official police reports. Using both an … event-study design and difference-in-differences, we show that while domestic violence during the pandemic continued (and …