TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rahlff, Helen
AU  - Rinne, Ulf
AU  - Sonnabend, Hendrik
        TI  - COVID-19, School Closures and (Cyber)Bullying in Germany
        PY  - 2023/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16650
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16650
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - cyberbullying
KW  - school bullying
KW  - Google Trends
        ER  -