Table 3.
Impact of the pandemic on domestic violence reports
| Type | City or Country | Estimated Effect (β) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calls | IHS (Calls) | ||||
| Coef. | S.E. | Coef. | S.E. | ||
| Domestic Violence Hotlines | Buenos Aires (Argentina) | 13.66*** | −1.06 | 0.613*** | −0.0513 |
| Colombia | 66.03*** | −3.089 | 0.821*** | −0.0398 | |
| Peru | 151.7*** | −20.08 | 0.15** | −0.0617 | |
| Emergency Lines | Costa Rica | −12.68*** | −3.768 | −0.103*** | −0.0301 |
| Ecuador | −52.70*** | −15.91 | −0.175*** | −0.0379 | |
| Lima (Peru) | −100.3*** | −7.693 | −0.755*** | −0.0489 | |
| Police Reports | Colombia | −67.52*** | −5.861 | −0.517*** | −0.0491 |
| Ecuador | −18.72*** | −4.055 | −0.533*** | −0.0677 | |
| Uruguay | −15.12*** | −4.713 | −0.0825*** | −0.0254 | |
Source: Authors’ calculations based on data from the following sources: Colombia: Policía Nacional (police reports) and Línea 155 (domestic violence hotline); Uruguay: Ministerio del Interior (police reports); Ecuador: Fiscalía General (police reports) and ECU911 (emergency line); Costa Rica: Ministerio de Seguridad and Instituto Nacional de Mujeres (emergency line); Lima, Peru: Línea 105 (emergency line) and Línea 100 (domestic violence hotline); Buenos Aires, Argentina: Línea 137 (domestic violence hotline). Note: The figure presents the results of the OLS estimation of Eq. (1) for each of the datasets examined. We use daily data from January 1 to June 30 for the available years (see Section III for details) We estimate heteroscedasticity robust standard errors. Stars denote statistical significance: * 10 percent level. ** 5 percent level. *** 1 percent level.