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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Being a Public Health Statistician During a Global Pandemic
TL;DR: Some key lessons learned from the experience of modeling the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in India since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 are shared.
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The Internet’s Interest in Autism Peaks in April: A Google Trends Analysis
Kordula Lang-Illievich,J Lang,Istvan-Szilard Szilagyi,Torsten Ullrich,Jolana Wagner-Skacel,Gabriela Repiská,Helmar Bornemann-Cimenti +6 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis of the study was that efforts in raising public interest should be reflected by an increase in online traffic in April compared to other months of the year, and data was assessed from the holding company, Alphabet Inc., offering the Web service Google Trends the most popular search queries.
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A babel of web-searches: Googling unemployment during the pandemic
TL;DR: In this article , a data-driven procedure is proposed to identify the list of queries linked to the phenomenon of interest, even in a cross-country setting, and queries are then aggregated in an indicator which can be used for causal inference.
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COVID-19 concerns in cyberspace predict human reduced dispersal in the real world: Meta-regression analysis of time series relationships across American states and 115 countries/territories
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined how concerns regarding the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in cyberspace (i.e., online search volume for coronavirus-related keywords) would predict human reduced dispersal in the real world between January 05, 2020 and May 22, 2021.
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From the perspective of Turkish women: intimate partner violence and perceived stress level in the Covid-19 pandemic
Funda Evcili,Gulbahtiyar Demirel +1 more
TL;DR: It was found that as the frequency of IPV increased, women's perception of stress also increased, and research such as this can be used to help inform decision-makers as they grapple with the adverse negative effects of public health safety measures related to Covid-19.
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