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Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence : Evidence from the Us During COVID-19
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Prina, Silvia - 2022
We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence … to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January … distribution of CARES Act stimulus payments. We observe that domestic violence calls for areas with higher concentration of …
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Pandemic Depression : Covid-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...
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Identifying the Causal Effect of Alcohol Abuse on the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence by Men Using a Natural Experiment
Averett, Susan L. - 2014
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences …
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The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital : Some Projections
Drozd, Mark; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - 2023
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...
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An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Epidemic : The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies
Brotherhood, Luiz - 2020
This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833250
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Failing to Pull Together : South Africa's Troubled Response to Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed infections continued to grow exponentially, placing the...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health : Disentangling Crucial Channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
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Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic : Post-Lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities
Liu, Yanyan; Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2021
How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility...
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Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic : Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?
Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy …
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The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns : Evidence from Ghana
Schotte, Simone; Danquah, Michael; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2021
In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a specific policy setting, in which strict stay-at-home orders were issued and enforced in two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213349