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-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the … and food security. On aggregate, the pandemic resulted in dramatic income losses, increases in food insecurity, and … prevalence of containment policies is associated with increased food insecurity, particularly for women, and with reduced female …
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Managing the outbreak of COVID-19 in India constitutes an unprecedented health emergency in one of the largest and most … diverse nations in the world. On May 4, 2020, India started the process of releasing its population from a national lockdown …
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In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown. To formalize and quantify this effect, we build a macro-susceptible-infected-recovered...
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As a way of slowing COVID-19 transmission, many countries and U.S. states implemented shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. However, the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health. The effect of SIP policies on COVID-19...
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"nonessential" to "essential" businesses and from restaurants and bars toward groceries and other food sellers …
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food or medicine, caring for others, exercise, or traveling for employment deemed essential. Between March 19 and April 20 … in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case … benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths …
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adoption of a SIPO, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and …
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Coronavirus has credited the State of California for taking early action to prevent a statewide COVID-19 outbreak, no study has …-level coronavirus data and a synthetic control research design, we find that California's statewide SIPO reduced COVID-19 cases by 125 …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a myriad of studies and proposals on how economic policy should respond to this colossal shock. But in this debate it is seldom recognized that the health shock is not entirely exogenous. Its magnitude and dynamics themselves depend on economic policies, and...
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This paper examines the determinants of social distancing during the COVID-19 epidemic. We classify state and local government actions, and we study multiple proxies for social distancing based on data from smart devices. Mobility fell substantially in all states, even ones that have not adopted...
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