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. 2023 Jan;87:102722. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102722

Table 2.

Effect of femicide news on helpline calls, by type of femicide.

Treatment (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Most Most Victim Brutal Murder-

covered
searched
Young
Children
femicide
suicide
Baseline: The effect of the news of a femicide
t 4 or earlier 0.004 −0.003 −0.011 −0.018 −0.010 −0.013
(0.015) (0.012) (0.014) (0.013) (0.016) (0.016)
t 3 −0.035 −0.002 −0.009 0.006 −0.025 −0.008
(0.025) (0.026) (0.021) (0.019) (0.028) (0.020)
t 2 0.022 0.024 0.022 0.012 0.032 0.030
(0.026) (0.021) (0.031) (0.038) (0.028) (0.036)
t 0.001 0.006 −0.004 0.014 0.017 0.010
(0.021) (0.019) (0.021) (0.024) (0.023) (0.022)
t+1 0.035* 0.047* 0.036* 0.078*** 0.028* 0.079***
(0.018) (0.025) (0.020) (0.020) (0.015) (0.016)
t+2 0.015 0.037 0.003 0.067* 0.019 0.015
(0.016) (0.023) (0.031) (0.035) (0.024) (0.026)
t+3 −0.013 −0.022 −0.027 0.011 −0.018 −0.008
(0.024) (0.017) (0.017) (0.026) (0.024) (0.020)
t+4or later −0.002 0.003 −0.010 0.015 −0.015 −0.002
(0.013) (0.014) (0.017) (0.013) (0.022) (0.013)

Differential effect of the selected treatment

t 4 or earlier −0.022 −0.005 −0.001 0.012 −0.004 0.004
(0.015) (0.022) (0.015) (0.030) (0.018) (0.019)
t 3 0.004 −0.027 −0.004 −0.029 0.036 −0.009
(0.020) (0.024) (0.038) (0.024) (0.045) (0.036)
t 2 0.022 0.050 0.025 0.025 −0.018 −0.015
(0.051) (0.052) (0.029) (0.023) (0.071) (0.031)
t 0.021 0.044 0.053 −0.014 −0.026 −0.013
(0.028) (0.040) (0.038) (0.028) (0.023) (0.024)
t+1 0.054* 0.048* 0.089 −0.044 0.067** −0.091**
(0.030) (0.026) (0.057) (0.031) (0.029) (0.036)
t+2 0.039 −0.006 0.103* −0.074** 0.012 0.039
(0.035) (0.027) (0.059) (0.035) (0.033) (0.045)
t+3 −0.006 0.031 0.067 −0.037 0.012 −0.011
(0.023) (0.035) (0.042) (0.023) (0.032) (0.029)
t+4or later 0.001 −0.013 0.018 −0.031 0.028 −0.007
(0.012) (0.021) (0.025) (0.022) (0.028) (0.016)

Observations 28,231 28,231 28,231 28,231 28,231 28,231
R-squared 0.307 0.307 0.307 0.307 0.307 0.307

Note: The baseline period is t1 (one week prior to the event of interest). The dependent variable is the number of helpline calls per 100,000 population. Population-weighted estimates include province and week-year fixed effects. Young victims are aged 28 or less. Beating/hitting includes any type of beating, hitting, pushing from heights and strangling. Standard errors are clustered at province level. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1.