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sharply with the onset of the first lockdown but recovered fairly quickly. In December 2020, levels of mental health are …
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We study the relationship between Covid-19 lockdowns and domestic assaults in New South Wales and Victoria using police data on crime by Local Government Area over the period 2019-2020. We apply both Ordinary Least Squares and a fixed effect estimator, and find that domestic assaults decline...
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The lockdown declared during the Spring 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak caused a reallocation of market and … Italy, schools and nurseries have been closed during three months and the incidence and quality of distant learning …-household responsibilities during the lock-down has affected children's use of time, their emotional status and their home learning. We find that …
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The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and government response, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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conducted both pre- and mid-lockdown, using an online diary instrument that proved both reliable and quick-to-field. Combining … clear changes in such behavior related to infection risk between the pre- and mid-lockdown periods: a substantial reduction … interpreted directly as a consequence of the UK COVID-19 'lockdown' regulations. Subsequent waves will reveal the behavioral …
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lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …
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COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March 31st, 2015-2020) for Lombardy, one of …
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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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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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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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