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During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the … (SCHEDULE-P) - and used a quasi-experimental design to study the impact of lockdown on preschool children's mental health and … lockdown and home confinement was associated with a 3.1% increase in the percentage of children at risk for mental health …
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the three different national level restrictive measures: the school closure, the main lockdown and the shutdown of non …, the side effects of the main lockdown on social and economic inequalities. …
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In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force...
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We study the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique online survey, the Canadian Perspective Survey Series, which allows us to investigate the mechanisms through which COVID-19 may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find...
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We use a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on mobility and traffic accidents …
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market shocks on different caste groups. We find that while all caste groups lost jobs in the first month of the lockdown …
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the effectiveness of lockdown measures. However, official data record infections after a critical and unpredictable delay … lockdown suggests a relevant announcement effect. In contrast, the last lockdown had significantly less impact. The proposed …
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Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered …,000 individuals surveyed in April 2020 (i.e. during the strict nationwide lockdown), the paper finds that overall employment, which … was relatively stable during the pre-pandemic time period, dropped sharply post-lockdown. This drop in employment was not …
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Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce mobility in order to prevent the diffusion of Covid-19. On March 9, 26 out of 111 provinces were subject to severe limitations on individual mobility between municipalities. One day later, new restrictive measures were...
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Overall mobility declined during the COVID-19 pandemic because of government lockdowns and voluntary social distancing. Yet, aggregate data mask important heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized and aggregate data provided by...
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