Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Fernandez-Kranz, Daniel; Nollenberger, Natalia
• 署名单位: Vienna University of Economics & Business; IE University; IE University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104350
• 发表日期: 2021
• 关键词: intimate partner violence; Lockdown; Economic stress; Covid-19; CORONAVIRUS

摘要

With the COVID-19 outbreak imposing stay at home and social distancing policies, warnings about the impact of lockdown and its economic consequences on domestic violence have surged. This paper disentangles the effect of forced cohabitation 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 impact of lockdown. We also find large but statistically imprecise estimates of a large increase of domestic violence when the relative position of the man worsens, especially in contexts where that position was already being threatened. We view our results as consistent with the male backlash and emotional cue effects. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.