Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
利用在线调查数据，发现封锁期间亲密伴侣暴力增加23%，且经济压力的影响是封锁的两倍，男性相对地位恶化时暴力增幅更大。
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.