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Covid-19 and Mental Health of Individuals with Different Personalities
Proto, Eugenio; Zhang, Anwen - 2021
Several studies have been devoted to establishing the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health across gender, age and ethnicity. However, much less attention has been paid to the differential effect of lockdown according to different personalities. We do this using the UKHLS...
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Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikolaos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we … changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227678
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The "Great Lockdown": Inactive Workers and Mortality by Covid-19
Borri, Nicola; Drago, Francesco; Santantonio, Chiara; … - 2020
estimates the causal effect of this measure on mortality by Covid-19 and on mobility patterns. The identification of the causal …. We also find that the economic lockdown, as expected, led to a reduction in human mobility. Several robustness checks …
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Walking the Tightrope: Avoiding a Lockdown While Containing the Virus
Egert, Balazs; Guillemette, Yvan; Murtin, Fabrice; … - 2020
Empirical work described in this paper explains the daily evolution of the reproduction rate, R, and mobility for a … large effect on reducing R, they also have effect on mobility and, by extension, economic activity. A wide-ranging package …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425703
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Mobility Restrictions and Alcohol Use during Lockdown: "A Still and Dry Pandemic for the Many"?
Celidoni, Martina; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2023
Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the … alcohol consumption. We document two findings using information from the Google Mobility Report and longitudinal data from the … Understanding Society in the United Kingdom. First, we find a sharp reduction in both actual mobility and alcohol use (consistent …
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COVID-19, Working from Home and the Potential Reverse Brain Drain
Bakalova, Irina; Fidrmuc, Jan; Berlinschi, Ruxanda; … - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a substantial increase in the prevalence of working from home among white-collar occupations. This can have important implications for the future of the workplace and quality of life. We discuss an additional implication, which we label reverse brain drain: the...
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Increased instruction time and stress-related health problems among school children
Marcus, Jan; Reif, Simon; Wuppermann, Amelie C.; … - 2019
While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its...
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The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
Kluender, Raymond; Mahoney, Neale; Wong, Francis; Yin, … - 2024
Two in five Americans have medical debt, nearly half of whom owe at least $2,500. Concerned by this burden, governments and private donors have undertaken large, high-profile efforts to relieve medical debt. We partnered with RIP Medical Debt to conduct two randomized experiments that relieved...
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Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch after Its 2011 Earthquake
Hoang, Thoa; Le, Van Thinh; Noy, Ilan - 2024
People are sometimes forced to move, and it has often been hypothesised that such relocation involves significant psychological costs. The challenge in identifying the mental health consequences of moving is that most moves are (partly) voluntary. We use a natural experiment, the mandated...
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The Economic Burden of Burnout
Nekoei, Arash; Sigurdsson, Jósef; Wehr, Dominik - 2024
We study the economic consequences of stress-related occupational illnesses (burnout) using Swedish administrative data. Using a mover design, we find that high-burnout firms and stressful occupations universally raise burnout risk yet disproportionately impact low-stress-tolerance workers....
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