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The problem
Intervention: School reopening and gradual restoration of in-person attendance
Who it was tested with: Children in Chile experiencing or at risk of physical, psychological, and sexual violence (ages not specified).
The same group is measured before the intervention and again afterwards, with a baseline and an endline and sometimes a midline. Change is visible, but other causes cannot be ruled out.
"We study all formal criminal reports of violence against children occurring in Chile up to December 2021, covering physical, psychological, and sexual violence. This is combined with administrative records of school re-opening, attendance, and epidemiological and public health measures." The researchers tracked actual reported cases before and after school closures and reopenings, observing that reporting declined sharply with closure and recovered only partially with reopening, showing that this intervention (school reopening) did not fully restore reporting to baseline levels.
The study measures formal criminal reports only and cannot assess unreported violence. The natural experiment design cannot isolate school closure as the sole cause of reporting declines, as other factors (e.g., lockdowns, healthcare disruptions, community transmission fear) may have contributed. Analysis is specific to Chile's context.
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