Arbeitspapier

Intimate partner violence and help-seeking: The role of femicide news

Exploiting high-frequency data from the Italian anti-violence helpline and a unique geolocalized dataset on killings of women, we show that the news coverage of a femicide triggers an increase in calls to the helpline. The effect is detectable in the week following the news and in the province where the femicide has occurred. These findings are consistent with a model in which the news of a femicide increase expectations about future intimate partner violence in case no call is made.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 1169

Classification
Wirtschaft
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Subject
Gender-based violence
Helpline
Intimate partner violence
Physical violence
Psychological violence
Sexual violence

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Colagrossi, Marco
Deiana, Claudio
Dragone, Davide
Geraci, Andrea
Giua, Ludovica
Iori, Elisa
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
(where)
Bologna
(when)
2021

DOI
doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6841
Handle
Last update
10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Colagrossi, Marco
  • Deiana, Claudio
  • Dragone, Davide
  • Geraci, Andrea
  • Giua, Ludovica
  • Iori, Elisa
  • Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)

Time of origin

  • 2021

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