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Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021

More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying...

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Unmet health care need and income-related horizontal equity in access during the COVID-19 pandemic

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2020

Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal equity in health care access during the first wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy : a syndemic perspective

Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three …

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Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic : does a public health or medical background help?

Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy …

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Mobility under the COVID-19 pandemic : asymmetric effects across gender and age

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2021

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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From the lockdown to the new normal : an analysis of the limitations to individual mobility in Italy following the Covid-19 crisis

Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020

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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Pandemic buying : Covid-19 and purchasing behaviour of French households

Lorey, Thierry; Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid - 2022

progression of purchasing trends of French households during the coronavirus outbreak. Our results are threefold: First, we … observe three temporal phases, namely the normal (pre-Covid-19) period, the anticipation period, and the lockdown period … first week of the preventive lockdown saw panic buying with sales jumping by 30%, followed by a more subdued growth during …

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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google trends

Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020

-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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A tale of three countries : how did Covid-19 lockdown impact happiness?

Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanie; Adhikari, Tamanna - 2020

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have implemented lockdown regulations to curb the spread of … well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses the causal effect of mandatory lockdown on happiness in three very …-being levels. Additionally, each country differs in terms of lockdown regulations and duration. The main idea is to determine …

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The effect of repeated lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic on UK mental health outcomes

Lindley, Joanne; Rienzo, Cinzia - 2021

This paper assesses the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown measures on the mental health of individuals in the UK …

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