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Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to … psychological theories, and find that past and present happiness predicts compliance during lockdown. The relationship is stronger …
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The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The …
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-in-differences and a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the causal effects of lockdown, we find a substantial increase in the … may have been severely affected by the lockdown. …
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Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have implemented lockdown regulations to curb the spread of … well-being. Using a pooled dataset, this paper analyses the causal effect of mandatory lockdown on happiness in three very …-being levels. Additionally, each country differs in terms of lockdown regulations and duration. The main idea is to determine …
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-in-differences and a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the causal effects of lockdown, we find a substantial increase in the … may have been severely affected by the lockdown. …
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It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance … the lockdown with the social and psychological benefits, and then compare the total of these with the increase in deaths …
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remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …
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remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …
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Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using...
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We study the impact of a COVID-19 relief program on compliance with confinement measures in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. We match information on the allocation of funds across Italian municipalities with data tracking citizens' movements drawn from mobile devices and vehicles'...
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