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the three different national level restrictive measures: the school closure, the main lockdown and the shutdown of non …, the side effects of the main lockdown on social and economic inequalities. …
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the effectiveness of lockdown measures. However, official data record infections after a critical and unpredictable delay … lockdown suggests a relevant announcement effect. In contrast, the last lockdown had significantly less impact. The proposed …
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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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More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying...
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India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …, as well as across states and urban-rural areas. In so doing, we build upon Egger et al. (2020)'s lockdown readiness index … pronounced horizontal inequality, but also because it adopted an especially stringent lockdown policy. Our analysis illustrates …
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lockdown) and social reaction to available information on the virus'behaviour. We also looked at experience of second waves …
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The coronavirus crisis that started in December 2019 was declared a pandemic by March 2020 and had devastating global … of the lockdown measures. However, the massive fiscal and monetary stimulus packages to counteract the effects of the …
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Like most countries, the Swiss government adopted drastic measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus. These … measures were aimed at avoiding close physical proximity between people. The adverse economic consequences of this lockdown … heterogeneous consequences of this lockdown policy, we computed a lockdown index. This index is based on an occupation's dependence …
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