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Concerns have been raised about the "demise of democracy", possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using a survey experiment involving 8,206 respondents from five Western democracies, we find that subjects randomly exposed to information regarding civil liberties infringements...
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This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … other cities and, within Bogota, the gender-based lockdown period to weeks with other lockdown policies. Our key findings … are that crime rates are higher during the gender-based lockdown policy and that this is driven by more crime involving …
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Domestic mobility restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 are widespread in developing countries, and have trapped millions of migrant workers in hotspot cities. We show that bans can increase cumulative infections relative to a counterfactual sans restrictions. A SEIR model shows bans'...
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What are the effects of a temporary lockdown of the economy? Do firms' deteriorating balance sheets and labor market … subsidies to firms during the lockdown. However, the effects are heterogeneous and young non-essential firms are …
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We empirically investigate the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on domestic violence using incident-level data on both domestic-related calls for service and crime reports of domestic violence assaults from the 18 major US police departments for which both types of records are available. Although we...
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dynamics of infections. We study several non-pharmaceutical interventions; e.g., i) lockdown rules, which set thresholds on the …
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while minimizing the negative effects of lockdown strategies on businesses and children …
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-triggered lockdown that has hampered people's physical interactions hence the ability to collect, process, and transmit soft information …. Exploiting the cross- sectional and time-series variations of lockdown, we investigate how the difficulty to use soft information … show that lockdown reduces fund investment in proximate stocks and generates a portfolio rebalancing toward distant stocks …
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policy in the current environment with widespread shelter-in-place ("lockdown") policies and the associated considerable … limits on economic activity. Using detailed regional variation in economic conditions, lockdown policies, and U.S. government …
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Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental...
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