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This paper analyses the relationship between working from home (WFH) and mental well-being at different stages during the first two critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic, when governments repeatedly imposed lockdowns and enacted WFH mandates to contain the spread of the virus. Using data from...
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Childhood is a critical period for development of mental health: episodes of mental illness during this time often recur in adulthood but early intervention can be highly effective at reducing this persistence. Understanding determinants of child mental health is therefore key for the design of...
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We study the effect of media coverage on individual behaviour during a public health crisis. For this purpose, we collect a unique dataset of 200,000 newspaper articles about the Covid-19 pandemic from Sweden - one of the few countries that did not impose mandatory lockdowns or curfews. We show...
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This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for eight large Latin American cities. Indicators of … mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining georeferenced mobile phone information with granular census … data. Before the pandemic, a strong positive association between SES and mobility is documented. With the arrival of the …
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This study examines the impact on human mobility of the national social distancing policies implemented in 18 Latin … countries with regard to whether these measures were introduced and when. Mobility is measured as the percentage of people … traveling more than 1 kilometer per day. Results indicate that lockdowns reduced mobility by an average of 10 percentage points …
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