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Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using...
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We present findings from a novel survey of Italian, British, and American families in lockdown during the COVID-19 … intra-household cooperation. While the long-run consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on family life cannot be assessed at …
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We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
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Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
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-in-differences and a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the causal effects of lockdown, we find a substantial increase in the … may have been severely affected by the lockdown. …
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In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...
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The UK is 'locked down' because of coronavirus (COVID-19). No clear exit strategy currently exists. This paper suggests …' from lockdown of the young cohort of UK citizens aged between age 20 and 30 who do not live with parents. The paper …
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This paper investigates the effect of the lockdown on COVID-19 infections. After the 22nd of March 2020, the Italian … the about one third of the cases considered could be attributed to the less stringent lockdown for essential sectors, with … suggests that the less stringent lockdown came at moderate public health related economic costs. In addition, we find that …
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When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …
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