Quantifying domestic violence in times of crisis

Dan Anderberg (), Helmut Rainer and Fabian Siuda
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Dan Anderberg: Institute for Fiscal Studies and Royal Holloway University of London

No W20/29, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may re?ect a low reporting-propensity, exacerbated by the lockdown measures. Combining ?ve years of daily Google Trends data for a set of DV-related search terms with daily data on DV crimes recorded by the London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), we propose a method for generating a search-based DV-index, exploiting that both sets of data re?ect the same inter-temporal variation in the (unobserved) DV incidence. Estimating the same model for the impact of lockdown on police-reported DV crimes and our search-based DV-index, we ?nd a similar timing, but a substantially larger impact on the latter.

Date: 2020-09-02
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