@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp16650,
            	author={Rahlff, Helen and Rinne, Ulf and Sonnabend, Hendrik},
            	title={COVID-19, School Closures and (Cyber)Bullying in Germany},
            	year={2023},
	month={Dec},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={16650},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16650},
	abstract={We analyze the prevalence of bullying in Germany during COVID-19, both as a real-life phenomenon (in-person bullying, or in our context: school bullying) and via social media and electronic communication tools (cyberbullying). Using Google Trends data from 2013 to 2022 and exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment when schools switched to distance learning, we document stark changes in the prevalence of (cyber)bullying in Germany: Our results indicate that during school years affected by COVID-19, online searches for school bullying decreased by about 25 percent, while online searches for cyberbullying increased by about 48 percent during the same periods.},
	keywords={cyberbullying;school bullying;Google Trends},
            }