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For much of 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic upended social and economic life globally. In an effort to reduce COVID-19 …, adding to voluntary reductions in interpersonal contact. The responses to the epidemic helped contain spread, but also lead … distancing regulations. However, as many epidemiologists expected, the scale of the epidemic has expanded very rapidly in the …
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We study the effects of the temporary federal paid sick leave mandate that became effective April 1st, 2020 on ‘social distancing,' as proxied by individuals' physical mobility behavior gleaned from cellular devices. The national paid leave policy was implemented in response to the COVID-19...
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This paper examines the determinants of social distancing during the COVID-19 epidemic. We classify state and local … states to the prevailing knowledge of public health risks. Early state policies conveyed information about the epidemic …
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This paper examines the determinants of social distancing during the COVID-19 epidemic. We classify state and local … states to the prevailing knowledge of public health risks. Early state policies conveyed information about the epidemic …
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Vaccines influence the course of pandemics both directly, by protecting the vaccinated, and indirectly, by reducing transmission to the unvaccinated, a key externality. Estimating direct effects is challenging because of selective vaccine take-up; estimating indirect effects also poses...
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We study how the societal disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted diagnosis of a prevalent childhood mental … a single state's comprehensive electronic health records, we compare children exposed to the pandemic to same aged … children prior to the pandemic. We find the pandemic reduced new ADHD diagnoses by 8.6% among boys and 11.0% among girls …
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We study how the societal disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted diagnosis of a prevalent childhood mental … a single state's comprehensive electronic health records, we compare children exposed to the pandemic to same aged … children prior to the pandemic. We find the pandemic reduced new ADHD diagnoses by 8.6% among boys and 11.0% among girls …
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