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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Changes in Patterns of Consumer Spending in European Households
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors compared consumption in European households in the years 2004-2020 and identified groups of countries with similar consumption-expenditure structures using trend analysis and cluster analysis.
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Mortalidad por COVID-19 y su relación con las búsquedas en internet sobre salud mental durante el primer año de pandemia
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COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined changes in content usage time due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea using Korean Media Panel data for the period 2011-2020 and explored the reasons for these changes.
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Measuring dynamic pandemic-related policy effects: A time-varying parameter multi-level dynamic factor model approach
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Sales trends of psychotropic drugs in the COVID-19 pandemic: A national database study in Brazil
Fernando de Sá Del Fiol,Cristiane de Cássia Bergamaschi,Luciane Cruz Lopes,Marcus Tolentino Silva,Silvio Barberato-Filho +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed the sales data of the psychotropics prescribed in Brazil, in order to verify the change in consumption trends of these drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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