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Physical Isolation and Loneliness : Evidence from COVID Lockdowns in Australia

Kong, Nancy; Lam, Jack - 2022

lockdown days in 2020 the respondent had experienced up until the interview date to estimate the causal link and find, based on … difference-in-differences analyses with three-way fixed-effects estimations, that the number of days in lockdown does not …

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Timing is everything when fighting a pandemic: COVID-19 mortality in Spain

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina; Rivera … - 2020

lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …

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Did lockdown work? : an economist's cross-country comparison

Bjørnskov, Christian - In: CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of the … 67 (2021) 3, pp. 318-331

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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify …

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The Political Economy of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Boettke, Peter J.; Powell, Benjamin - 2021

We argue that the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic by all levels of government around the world is not …

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Breaking the Fall : Successful Homeless Interventions in the COVID Pandemic

Flaming, Daniel; Pickens, Seth; Burns, Patrick - 2023

Government income and housing interventions during the COVID pandemic had demonstrable benefits in reducing the growth of homelessness. Comparisons of projected versus actual growth in Los Angeles County from 2020 to 2022 validate the benefit of these interventions.This report offers three types...

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Lockdowns, loneliness and life satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020

Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...

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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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Weather, Mobility and the Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ghirelli, Corinna; González-Piñero, Andrea; Herrera, … - 2021

We estimate the effective reproduction number (Rt) of the current Covid-19 pandemic, with US daily infections data between February and September of 2020, at the county level. This is then used to estimate the effect of weather and mobility on the spread of the pandemic. We find a strong and...

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Modelling the Global Prevalence of COVID-19 : An Econometric Approach

Adekunle, Wasiu; Oyolola, Feyisayo; AbdulHameed, AbdulBasit - 2021

The global economies were caught up unawares with the sudden outbreak and rapid spread of coronavirus pandemic from … Wuhan City of China to the rest of the world. A number of studies have been conducted to investigate the drivers of the … the spread of the pandemic across four continents of the world including Africa, Asia, America and Europe. Across the four …

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