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lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …
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With the COVID-19 outbreak imposing stay at home and social distancing policies, warnings about the impact of lockdown … partner violence during the lockdown. Our results indicate that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the … impact of lockdown. We also find a large increase of domestic violence when the relative position of the man worsens …
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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 …
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Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws on three data sources: (1) longitudinal administrative data on the volume of help requests to helplines, shelters and counselling services, (2) cross-sectional survey data...
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During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the … (SCHEDULE-P) - and used a quasi-experimental design to study the impact of lockdown on preschool children's mental health and … lockdown and home confinement was associated with a 3.1% increase in the percentage of children at risk for mental health …
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It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance … the lockdown with the social and psychological benefits, and then compare the total of these with the increase in deaths …
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economic lockdown and contagion. We then supply empirical evidence, by means of simulation analysis, on the distributive … effects of the lockdown for 31 European countries. Our results confirm that the lockdown is likely to significantly increase …
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In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force...
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remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …
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