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the costs of complying with COVID-19 restrictions, but only so long as excess mortality does not exceed the average by …We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST …
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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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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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economic lockdown and contagion. We then supply empirical evidence, by means of simulation analysis, on the distributive … effects of the lockdown for 31 European countries. Our results confirm that the lockdown is likely to significantly increase …
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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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We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector …, and individual characteristics across countries. GDP effects of lockdown policies also depend on countries' sectoral …. Overall, a realistic lockdown policy implies GDP losses of 20-25% on an annualized basis. …
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Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to … psychological theories, and find that past and present happiness predicts compliance during lockdown. The relationship is stronger …
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The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature …
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-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the … lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify … and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The …
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