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Economic determinants of intimate partner violence: The case of Sweden during Covid-19

We document an increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Sweden during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, notwithstanding the famously lasseiz-faire approach taken by the coutry. We investigate the role of different mediating factors, affected by the pandemic, by the containment policies, or by their economic consequences, and spilling over to violence incidence, connecting to established theories of violence. We find support for the importance of time spent at home and female unemployment. We also find a positive correlation with alcohol sales.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: SITE Working Paper ; No. 60

Classification
Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Criminal Law
Subject
COVID-19
domestic violence
unemployment
self-incapacitation

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Perrotta Berlin, Maria
Gerrell, Manne
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)
(where)
Stockholm
(when)
2022

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Perrotta Berlin, Maria
  • Gerrell, Manne
  • Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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