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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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Overall mobility declined during the COVID-19 pandemic because of government lockdowns and voluntary social distancing …
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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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during a pandemic. Agents are connected through a weighted undirected network of contacts, and the planner's objective is to … tradeoff between the economic cost of the pandemic and the infection incidence allowed; and (ii) they suggest a correlation … between different measures of network centrality and individual lockdown probability with the correlation increasing with the …
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This paper assesses the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown measures on the mental health of individuals in the UK … women appear to be more sensitive to the effect of the pandemic, and report much higher levels of anxiety and depression … growing impact on all mental health outcomes, as the pandemic progressed. …
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COVID-19 death rates than not-for-profit nursing homes. In addition, this differential health effect increases with lockdown …How do pandemics affect for-profit and not-for-profit organizations differently? To address this question, we analyze … solution that depends on network structure, lockdown effectiveness, and the planner's tolerable infection incidence. Using …
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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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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 … diverse countries (South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia), regarding population size, economic development and well-being …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread … of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We use Google Trends data to test whether … the lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to changes in well-being related topic search terms. Using differences …
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was relatively stable during the pre-pandemic time period, dropped sharply post-lockdown. This drop in employment was not … 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 …
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