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 Mental Health in China: Effects of Personality and Demographics
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present new evidence on the deterioration in mental health in China between 2018 and 2020, using two waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to follow the same individuals pre and during the COVID-19 virus outbreak.
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Covid Data Analytics Repository: An interdisciplinary look into the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
Ramon A. S. Franco,Pedro Loures Alzamora,Janaína Guiginski,Evandro Cunha,Tereza Bernardes,Juan F. Galindo,Luana Passos,R. Schneider,Bruno Gustavo Chagas,Kícila Ferreguetti,Luís Cardoso,Pedro Moreira,Wallace Pereira,Ana Paula Silva,Wagner Meira +14 more
TL;DR: The construction and deployment of the Covid Data Analytics Repository is described, a source for interdisciplinary studies about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, and it contains 1,508 documents, classified into two main types.
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Business resilience: Lessons from government responses to the global COVID-19 crisis
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore the survival of firms across countries, and what factors contribute to their ability to withstand large-scale exogenous shocks, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Effects of Covid-19 Lockdowns on Social Distancing in Turkey
TL;DR: In this paper , the causal effect of lockdowns on social distancing behavior in Turkey by adopting an augmented synthetic control and a factor-augmented model approach for imputing counterfactuals was investigated.
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Stay-at-home and face mask policy intentions inconsistent with incidence and fatality during the US COVID-19 pandemic
TL;DR: In this article , the authors characterize the relationship between SAH and mandatory face mask (MFM) approaches with the incidence and fatality of COVID-19 during the pandemic period until 23 August 2020 (about 171 days).
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