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The safest time to fly : pandemic response in the era of Fox News
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael; Tian, Yuan - 2020
-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all U.S. states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to … 15-17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility using Facebook location data. Then, using the historical position … during a pandemic by affecting people's behaviour. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391352
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The safest time to fly : pandemic response in the era of Fox News
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Michael; Tian, Yuan - 2021
-19 pandemic. We measure county-level mobility covering all U.S. states and District of Columbia produced by GPS pings to … 15-17 million smartphones and zip-code-level mobility using Facebook location data. Then, using the historical position … during a pandemic by affecting people's behaviour. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492337
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Task content and job losses in the Great Lockdown
Petroulakis, Filippos - 2020
I examine the short-term labor market effects of the Great Lockdown in the United States. I analyze job losses by task content (Acemoglu & Autor 2011), and show that they follow underlying trends; jobs with a high non-routine content are especially well-protected, even if they are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306404
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Coronagraben in Switzerland : culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19
Deopa, Neha; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021
between February and December 2020. We find that German-speaking cantons decreased their mobility for non essential activities … across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland … decline in mobility. Additionally, cantons supporting a limited role of the state in matters of welfare also displayed a lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549091
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Optimally targeting interventions in networks during a pandemic : theory and evidence from the networks of nursing homes in the United States
Pongou, Roland; Tchuente, Guy; Tondji, Jean-Baptiste - 2021
This study develops an economic model for a social planner who prioritizes health over short- term wealth accumulation during a pandemic. Agents are connected through a weighted undirected network of contacts, and the planner's objective is to determine the policy that contains the spread of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650156
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Assessing targeted containment policies to fight COVID-19
Checo, Ariadne; Grigoli, Francesco; Mota, Jose M. - 2021
The large economic costs of full-blown lockdowns in response to COVID-19 outbreaks, coupled with heterogeneous mortality rates across age groups, led to question non-discriminatory containment mea- sures. In this paper we provide an assessment of the targeted approach to containment. We propose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395507
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COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being : evidence from Google trends
Brodeur, Abel; Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; … - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221742
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Stay-at-home orders, social distancing and trust
Brodeur, Abel; Grigoryeva, Idaliya; Kattan, Lamis - 2020
- essential visitation, we find that: stay-at-home orders reduce mobility by about 8{10 percentage points; high-trust counties … decrease their mobility significantly more than low-trust counties post-lockdown; and counties with relatively more self …-declared democrats decrease significantly more their mobility. We also provide evidence that the estimated effect on compliance post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221757
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Short-term labour market effects of COVID-19 and the associated national lockdown in Australia : evidence from Longitudinal Labour Force Survey
Guven, Cahit; Sotirakopoulos, Panagiotis; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
We examine the short-term labour market effects of COVID-19 and the associated national lockdown in Australia by estimating person-fixed-effects models using the Longitudinal Labour Force Survey. COVID19 decreased labour force participation (LFP) by 2.1%, increased unemployment by 1.1% and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262287
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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2021
implementation of similar policies in Europe. We calculate that as of the end of June 2020, the benefits from avoided car collisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423752