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likely to state that they know a victim of violence but are not more likely to state that violence (physical or psychological … likely to suggest that a hypothetical victim of violence either not react to or deal directly with the partner rather than … look for formal help. Using different controls for the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on the respondents …
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domestic violence. In this paper, we document the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on police calls for service for domestic … violence. The pandemic and accompanying public health response led to a 10.2 percent increase in domestic violence calls. The …The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide economic slowdown as more people practice social distancing and shelter at …
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We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a … may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find no evidence that employment status and work arrangements are … related to higher self-reported levels of family stress and violence in the home due to confinement, suggesting that remote …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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against Asians amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a Difference-in-Differences approach, we demonstrate that the forecast … quality of East Asian analysts deteriorates during the pandemic. In particular, compared with non-East-Asian analysts, East …, and less timely during the pandemic. Utilizing a staggered Difference-in-Differences approach, we identify Anti-Asian hate …
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws … counselling services, (2) cross-sectional survey data collected during the first wave of the pandemic, and (3) a qualitative … online survey with counsellors and domestic violence experts. The number of violence-related requests at helplines increased …
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violence and economic activity, and also generates a proxy to measure the geographic concentration of police forces. Using … Brazil's violence is changing. Recent analyses highlight a trend of dispersion of violence such that homicide rates in urban … panel data across all 26 states from 1995 to 2011, we find evidence of a correlation between dispersion of violence and GDP …
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On July 13, 2020 a complete nation-wide ban was placed on the sale and transport of alcohol in South Africa. This paper evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find that the policy reduced the number of unnatural...
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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 …
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