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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 …
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Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829223
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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...
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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 … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether.In this paper we argue that both government and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823866
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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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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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The Covid-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Weymouth, Stephen - 2021
What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we estimate the effect of COVID-19 cases and deaths on the change in county-level voting for Donald Trump between 2016 and 2020. To account for potential confounders, we include a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314977
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The Politicized Pandemic : Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19
Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022
We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083903
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Lives and Livelihoods : Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Decerf, Benoit - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826740
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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