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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. 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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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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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 …
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solution that depends on network structure, lockdown effectiveness, and the planner's tolerable infection incidence. Using … unique data on nursing home networks in the United States, we calibrate the model and jointly quantify state-level lockdown … COVID-19 death rates than not-for-profit nursing homes. In addition, this differential health effect increases with lockdown …
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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 …-being levels. Additionally, each country differs in terms of lockdown regulations and duration. The main idea is to determine …
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-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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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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