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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834592
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Does Policy Communication During Covid-19 Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831220
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The Impact of Covid-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market : Evidence from Stay-at-Home Orders
Ali, Umair - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833254
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823293
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Parents Under Stress  Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies During the First Covid-19 Lockdown in Germany
Schüller, Simone; Steinberg, Hannah - 2022
rules during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany and draws on unique data from the 2019 and 2020 waves of the German AID …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031145
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Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court Restart a Covid-19 Epidemic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
Both the White House and state governors have explicitly linked thresholds of reduced COVID-19 case growth to the lifting of statewide shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This "hardwired" policy endogeneity creates empirical challenges in credibly isolating the causal effect of lifting a statewide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831971
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non … vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial … mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and …
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Explaining Governors' Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States
Baccini, Leonardo - 2020
What is the response of US governors to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this research note, we explore the determinants of implementing stay-at-home orders, focusing on governors' characteristics. In our most conservative estimate, being a Democratic governor increases the probability of implementing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836415
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The First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK
Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew - 2021
We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to compare measures of socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to July...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250250
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Covid-19 Lockdowns and Decline in Traffic Related Deaths and Injuries
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833237