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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Zero-COVID Policies: Melbourne's 112-Day Hard Lockdown Experiment Harmed Mostly Mothers
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors demonstrate that the 112-day hard lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, the longest among OECD jurisdictions, exclusively penalized families with young children and found that mothers experienced significant, sizable declines in health and work hours, and increases in loneliness, despite feeling safer and being more active.
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The association of COVID-19 employment shocks with suicide and safety net use: An early-stage investigation
Michihito Ando,Masato Furuichi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined whether the COVID-19-induced employment shocks are associated with increases in suicides and safety net use in the second and third quarters of 2020 and found that a one-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with an additional 0.52 suicides, 28 unemployment benefit recipients, 88 recipients of a temporary loan program, and 10 recipients of public assistance per 100,000 population per month.
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The impact of school closures on adolescent health-related outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A natural experiment in South Korea
Hanbin Lee,Buhm Han +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of school closure on adolescent health is poorly understood, and a difference-in-differences comparing changes in health-related outcomes between provinces with differing degrees of school closures was performed.
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Lockdown Policies, Economic Support, and Mental Health: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic in United States
Haitang Yao,Jiayang Wang,Wei Liu +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed the impact of lockdown on overall mental health levels in US states during the COVID-19 pandemic at the macro level and found that the lockdown policies implemented by the state governments lead to a deterioration in psychological conditions, and this relationship varies to some extent depending on the level of high-quality economic support, that the state government implement to alleviate the symptoms of depression and anxiety associated with the lockdown.
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Shall We Dance? Recreational Dance, Well-Being and Productivity Performance During COVID-19: A Three-Country Study
TL;DR: The authors found that recreational dancers are more productive than non-dancers due to their higher intrinsic motivation and subjective well-being (SWB), and that recreational dance positively influences productivity through higher SWB.
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