Assaults during lockdown in New South Wales and Victoria

Solmaz Moslehi; Jaai Parasnis; Massimiliano Tani; Josephina Vejayaratnam

Assaults during lockdown in New South Wales and Victoria

Solmaz Moslehi, Jaai Parasnis, Massimiliano Tani, Josephina Vejayaratnam

Department of Economics

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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 Osters (2019) test, and mimic Boman and Gallupe (2020) - a similar study carried out in the US.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-212
Number of pages	14
Journal	Australian Journal of Labour Economics
Volume	24
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

domestic assault
lockdown
COVID-19

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