the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides new empirical evidence for the regional differentiation of lockdown measures and … indicates a possible reorganization of spatial economic and social activities beyond the course of the pandemic. Spatial …

We assess the impact of the timing of lockdown measures implemented in Germany and Switzerland on cumulative COVID-19 …-related hospitalization and death rates. Our analysis exploits the fact that the epidemic was more advanced in some regions … than in others when certain lockdown measures came into force, based on measuring health outcomes relative to the region …

What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and …. Our results suggest that decreasing parental well-being likely constitutes a general effect of the pandemic, whereas the … parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate increases in parental stress and negative …

ineffective in the presence of lockdown measures in place and because of limited pass-through of temporary measures into consumer … model distinguishes between sectors directly and indirectly affected by the lockdown. This allows us to trace economic … spillovers of lockdown measures to the rest of the economy and the differentiated impact of VAT measures on the two sectors. We …

two dimensions of the first lockdown in Germany, namely the length and the strength of the lockdown. While the assessment … of closure in different sectors. For the length of the lockdown we find that an additional day of closure lead to an … lockdown the results show that a higher degree of closure increases separations and lower job findings to a similar extent. In …

during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the medium-term dynamics of … couples’ childcare division and by considering the prepandemic division rather than providing merely snapshots during lockdown … months. Starting from a fairly “traditional” prepandemic childcare division, the lockdown stimulus was not nearly strong …