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This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
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Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) have been implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the short-run impact of these containment policies on the supply of and demand for child care. The child care market may be particularly vulnerable to a SAHO-type...
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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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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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psychological theories, and find that past and present happiness predicts compliance during lockdown. The relationship is stronger …
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concentration of NO2 to decrease by 24 to 32 percent two weeks after the COVID-19 lockdown.While this finding is robust to different … measures of air quality and model specifications, the positive effects of the lockdown appear to dissipate after ten weeks. We …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that two weeks after the lockdown, the economic gains from better air quality are roughly $0.6 billion US …
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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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We study the relationship between Covid-19 lockdowns and domestic assaults in New South Wales and Victoria using police data on crime by Local Government Area over the period 2019-2020. We apply both Ordinary Least Squares and a fixed effect estimator, and find that domestic assaults decline...
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Using a strict, age-specific lockdown order for adults aged 65 and older in Turkey, we examine the mental health …
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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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