COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
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...…as border closures, travel restrictions and lockdowns, have affected labor markets, consumption patterns, and economic activities all over the world [Coibion et al., 2020, Adams-Prassl et al., 2020b, Montenovo et al., 2020, Fetzer et al., 2020b, Brodeur et al., 2020b, Adams-Prassl et al., 2020a]....
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...…Inc., 2019], sleep [Ong et al., 2020], social distancing [Allcott et al., 2020, Biroli et al., 2020] or mental health [Adams-Prassl et al., 2020b, Brodeur et al., 2020a, Beland et al., 2020, Brooks et al., 2020, Fetzer et al., 2020b,a, Gunnell et al., 2020, Office for National Statistics, Banks…...
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...In order to limit the number of deaths and hospitalisations due to the novel coronavirus, most governments in developed countries decided to suspend many economic activities and restrict people’s freedom of mobility (Brodeur et al. 2020a, b; Qiu et al. 2020)....
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...The economic literature on COVID-19 is exploding daily: between March 2020 and June 2020, the Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) released more than 160 working papers on this topic and around 100 were the discussion papers published by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics (Brodeur et al. 2020c)....
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"COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being:..." refers methods in this paper
...Guided by epidemiological models (Ferguson et al., 2020; Lourenço et al., 2020), the rationale for restricting movement is to save as many lives as possible in the short and medium run....
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...We here focus on well-being: joblessness, social isolation and the lack of freedom, which are some of the by-products of lockdown, are all well-known risk factors for mental health and unhappiness (Clark and Oswald, 1994; Leigh-Hunt et al., 2017; Verme, 2009)....
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...We here focus on well-being: joblessness, social isolation and the lack of freedom, which are some of the by-products of lockdown, are all well-known risk factors for mental health and unhappiness (Clark and Oswald, 1994; Leigh-Hunt et al., 2017; Verme, 2009)....
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...…et al., 2020; Brodeur et al., 2020a; Brooks et al., 2020; Fang et al., 2020),4 and more generally the economic consequences of COVID-19 (e.g., Alon et al., 2020; Béland et al., 2020; Berger et al., 2020; Fetzer et al., 2020; Jones et al., 2020; Jordá et al., 2020; Ramelli et al., 2020;…...
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