The effect of confinement on intimate partner violence is hard to assess, partly because of usual endogeneity problems, but also because the often-used report calls poorly measure that violence. We exploit self-reported survey data from Argentina to study the extent to which the coronavirus pandemic quarantine had unintended consequences on intimate partner violence. The quarantine decree established clear exceptions for heterogeneous subsets of the population and, for reasons plausibly exogenous to the prevalence of intimate partner violence, only some individuals were forced to spend more time with their partners. Using this variability in exposure we find that the lockdown led to an increase between 12% and 35% in intimate partner violence, depending type of violence (emotional, physical or sexual). Given the Argentinian government imposed the full national lockdown when few people felt threatened by the virus, these effects are likely to have been triggered by the actual confinement.

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坐月子和亲密伴侣暴力†

禁闭对亲密伴侣暴力的影响很难评估，部分原因是通常的内生性问题，但也因为经常使用的报告称对这种暴力的衡量很差。我们利用来自阿根廷的自我报告调查数据来研究冠状病毒大流行隔离对亲密伴侣暴力产生的意外后果的程度。隔离令明确规定了人群异质亚群的例外情况，并且由于亲密伴侣暴力流行的外生原因，只有一些个人被迫花更多的时间与他们的伴侣在一起。使用这种暴露的可变性，我们发现封锁导致亲密伴侣暴力增加了 12% 到 35%，具体取决于暴力类型（情感、身体或性）。鉴于阿根廷政府在很少有人感到受到病毒威胁时实施了全面的全国封锁，这些影响很可能是由实际封锁引发的。