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Lack of information about COVID-19 and its spread may have contributed to excess mortality at the pandemic's onset. In April and May 2020, we implemented a randomized controlled trial with more than 3,000 households in 150 Bangladeshi villages. Our one-to-one information campaign via phone...
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We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...
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Lack of information about COVID-19 and its spread may have contributed to excess mortality at the pandemic's onset. In April and May 2020, we implemented a randomized controlled trial with more than 3,000 households in 150 Bangladeshi villages. Our one-to-one information campaign via phone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468485
Lack of information about COVID-19 and its spread may have contributed to excess mortality at the pandemic's onset. In April and May 2020, we implemented a randomized controlled trial with more than 3,000 households in 150 Bangladeshi villages. Our one-to-one information campaign via phone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470614
the outbreak with a lockdown that impacted most residents of Hubei province and lasted for almost three months. At the … time, the lockdown was the strictest both within China and worldwide. Using an interactive web-based experiment conducted … half a year after the lockdown with participants from 11 Chinese provinces, we investigate the behavioral effects of this …
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Using a strict, age-specific lockdown order for adults aged 65 and older in Turkey, we examine the mental health …
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This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the … postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social …-maximal lockdown saving lives at the cost of reducing average utility at a given period, there exists always a stricter lockdown, which …
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During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the … (SCHEDULE-P) - and used a quasi-experimental design to study the impact of lockdown on preschool children's mental health and … lockdown and home confinement was associated with a 3.1% increase in the percentage of children at risk for mental health …
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We fit the logistic function, the reduced form of epidemic behaviour, to the data for deaths from Covid-19, for a wide … lockdown) and social reaction to available information on the virus'behaviour. We also looked at experience of second waves …
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
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