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This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers' job-specific stresses and their enthusiasm for … the teaching occupation. We use unique data from China that cover the periods before and after the start of the pandemic … and apply difference-in-differences type methods. We find that, among rural young teachers, the pandemic has caused higher …
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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative …
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pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data …
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We identify the individual resources that predicted psychological resilience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using UK … matching respondents on key characteristics, we find that the most important predictor of resilience is non-cognitive skills … income, wealth, cognitive ability, nor social capital predicted resilience. Our findings hold when comparing differences …
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respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated …
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Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of COVID19 if RSC were upheld after April 20. We employ these findings and feed them into our...
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This paper examines how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic outcomes of … precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and by … prior to the pandemic protected colleges from these negative effects. Enrollment changes were substantial across a wide …
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Although enrollment at California's four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the …. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic … dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …
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on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping … trust correlates with the individual experiences of the pandemic. The analysis is based on a new global survey - 'Life with … suggest that the effects of the pandemic go well beyond immediate health concerns, leading to important normative changes that …
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COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment rate understates employment losses. We focus on the...
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