understand the effect of the pandemic and of local lockdown measures on mental health-related helpline contacts. First, looking … at Germany-wide changes, we find that overall helpline contacts increase by around 20% in the first week of the lockdown … and slowly decrease again after the third lockdown week. Our results suggest that the increase is not driven by financial …

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 …

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 … enough to level the playing field. A subgroup analysis differentiating between parents’ individual lockdown-specific work …

measures adopted by the German government. Based on a spatio-temporal endemic-epidemic model we show that in retrospective … in Germany on the early stages of the epidemic, is not optimal. …

measures adopted by the German government. Based on a spatio-temporal endemic-epidemic model we show that in retrospective … in Germany on the early stages of the epidemic, is not optimal …