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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Covid-19 and life satisfaction across Europe
Ronald Bachmann,Ronald Bachmann,Myrielle Gonschor,Thorben Korfhage,Ansgar Wübker,Ansgar Wübker +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the importance of the spread of Covid-19 and related policy measures for individual life satisfaction in a sample of 15 European countries and find that life satisfaction is negatively correlated with Covid19.
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Using Google Health Trends to investigate COVID-19 incidence in Africa
TL;DR: In this article , the authors collected COVID-19 case and death incidence for 54 African countries and obtained averages for four, five-month study periods in 2020-2021.
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Differential effects of COVID-19 and containment measures on mental health: Evidence from ITA.LI-Italian Lives, the Italian household panel.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a subsample of a household panel study in Italy to track changes in mental health before the onset of COVID-19 and into the first lockdown period, from late April to early September 2020.
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COVID-19, marriage, and divorce in Japan
Mizuki Komura,Hikaru Ogawa +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the effects of stay-at-home policies on the flows into and out of marriage were explored using a monthly panel dataset of prefectures in Japan, and it was found that these policies significantly reduced both outcomes.
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Biopsychosocial Response to the COVID-19 Lockdown in People with Major Depressive Disorder and Multiple Sclerosis
Sara Siddi,Iago Gine-Vazquez,Raquel Bailon,Faith Matcham,Femke Lamers,Spyridon Kontaxis,Estela Laporta,Esther García,Belén Arranz,Gloria Dalla Costa,Ana Isabel Guerrero,Ana Zabalza,Mathias Buron,Giancarlo Comi,Letizia Leocani,Peter Annas,Matthew Hotopf,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Melinda Magyari,Per Soelberg Sørensen,Xavier Montalban,Grace Lavelle,Alina Ivan,Carolin Oetzmann,Katie M White,Sonia Difrancesco,Patrick Locatelli,David C. Mohr,Jordi Aguiló,Vaibhav A. Narayan,Amos Folarin,Richard Dobson,Judith Dineley,Daniel Leightley,Nick Cummins,Srinivasan Vairavan,Yatharth Ranjan,Zulqarnain Rashid,Aki Rintala,Giovanni de Girolamo,Antonio Preti,Sara Simblett,Til Wykes,Pab Members,Inez Myin-Germeys,Josep Maria Haro,On Behalf Of The Radar-Cns Consortium +46 more
TL;DR: Behavioral response to the lockdown measured by social activity, physical activity and HR may reflect changes in stress in people with MDD and MS.
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