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Timing is Everything When Fighting a Pandemic : Covid-19 Mortality in Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2020
-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the … lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …
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Vaccination Take-Up and Health : Evidence from a Flu Vaccination Program for the Elderly
Brilli, Ylenia - 2020
We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take-up behavior and hospitalization. Using both administrative and survey data, we implement a regression discontinuity design around the threshold at age 65, and find that the effect of...
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Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and Covid-19
Askitas, Nikos - 2020
We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
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For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior
Conti, Gabriella; GIUSTINELLI, PAMELA - 2023
We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in …
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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829235
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A New Perspective from Time Use Research on the Effects of Lockdown on Covid-19 Behavioral Infection Risk
Gershuny, Jonathan - 2020
conducted both pre- and mid-lockdown, using an online diary instrument that proved both reliable and quick-to-field. Combining … clear changes in such behavior related to infection risk between the pre- and mid-lockdown periods: a substantial reduction … interpreted directly as a consequence of the UK COVID-19 'lockdown' regulations. Subsequent waves will reveal the behavioral …
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Covid-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being : Evidence from Google Trends
Brodeur, Abel - 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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Lockdowns, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel - 2020
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
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Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence from Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns
Krekel, Christian - 2020
psychological theories, and find that past and present happiness predicts compliance during lockdown. The relationship is stronger …
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The Political Cost of Lockdown'S Enforcement
Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2021
We study how the political cost of enforcing a lockdown in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak relates to citizens … the crisis decreases with the amount of the penalties that individuals would like to see enforced for lockdown violations …
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