COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
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Google Trends data is used to test whether COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to changes in well-being related topic search-terms, and finds a substantial increase in the search intensity for boredom and a significant increase in searches for loneliness, worry and sadness.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 2021-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 356 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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Insights on the implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures for mental health.
TL;DR: Natural variability in policy implementation across US states and over time was analyzed to determine if mitigation policies correlated with Google searches for terms associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety, finding that restaurant/bar limits and stay-at-home orders correlated with immediate increases in searches for isolation and worry.
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A Babel of Web-Searches: Googling Unemployment During the Pandemic
TL;DR: A data-driven procedure is proposed which, exploiting machine learning techniques, solves the issue of identifying the list of queries linked to the phenomenon of interest, even in a cross-country setting and shows that the indicator rose significantly and persistently in the aftermath of lock-downs.
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The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020.
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Associations of lockdown stringency and duration with Google searches for mental health terms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nine-country study
Pedro Antonio de la Rosa,Richard G. Cowden,Renato de Filippis,Stefan Jerotić,Mahsa Nahidi,Dorottya Ori,Laura Orsolini,Sachin Nagendrappa,Mariana Pinto da Costa,Ramdas Ransing,Fahimeh Saeed,Sheikh Shoib,Serkan Turan,Irfan Ullah,Ramyadarshni Vadivel,Rodrigo Ramalho +15 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the associations of lockdown stringency and duration with Google searches for four mental health concepts (i.e., "Anxiety," "Depression," "Suicide," "Mental Health") in nine countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Constructing a positive sentiment index for COVID-19: Evidence from G20 stock markets
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the degree of market responses through the scope of investors' sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic across G20 markets by constructing a novel positive search volume index for COVID19 (COVID19+).
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