Assaults During Lockdown in Nsw and Victoria

14 Pages Posted: 29 Jul 2021 Last revised: 16 Apr 2023

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Solmaz Moslehi

Monash Business School

Jaai Parasnis

Monash University - Department of Economics

Massimiliano Tani

University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Josephina Vejayaratnam

Monash University

Abstract

We study the relationship between Covid-19 lockdowns and domestic assaults in New South Wales and Victoria using police data on crime by Local Government Area over the period 2019-2020. We apply both Ordinary Least Squares and a fixed effect estimator, and find that domestic assaults decline during the lockdowns of 2020, but less than other types of assaults. As a result, there is a higher relative incidence of domestic assaults rather than an overall increase in crime. The results are robust to omitted variable bias based on Oster's (2019) test, and mimic Boman and Gallupe (2020) - a similar study carried out in the US.

Keywords: lockdowns, COVID-19, domestic assault, crime

JEL Classification: I10, K42

Suggested Citation

Moslehi, Solmaz and Parasnis, Jaai and Tani, Massimiliano and Vejayaratnam, Josephina, Assaults During Lockdown in Nsw and Victoria. IZA Discussion Paper No. 14573, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3892601 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3892601

Solmaz Moslehi (Contact Author)

Monash Business School ( email )

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Jaai Parasnis

Monash University - Department of Economics ( email )

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Massimiliano Tani

University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy ( email )

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