What is needed:

➡️Increased awareness of economic abuse
➡️Gender-egalitarian legislation
➡️Culturally sensitive interventions
➡️More longitudinal research on economic abuse

Key findings:
✔️Economic abuse includes refusal to contribute financially, restricting access to shared housing, bride price and dowry-related tactics & exploitation of women’s labor
✔️Marriage practices & patrilocality are key risks
✔️Economic abuse leads to poor health & financial hardship

❌We do not observe greater violence in states with higher mobility reductions, lower day care capacity for childcare or higher COVID-19 infection numbers
✔️But our cross-sectional household-level data suggests that home quarantine & financial distress may have been triggers of violence

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What we find:

➡️Requests at helplines increased significantly by 34% with the first lockdown
➡️Requests at shelters increased by 14% only after the lockdown
👉This means: Women substituted ambulatory care with helpline calls during the lockdown

We propose solutions at structural, project, and individual levels to ensure staff wellbeing, improve ethical integrity, and enhance data rigour

Based on 57 semi-structured interviews with research staff across hierarchies (data collectors, PhD students, PIs...) and world regions, we identify structural, country, and individual-level challenges leading to ethical failures like insecurity, distress, and exploitation