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population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we … changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We …
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evidence that, after the introduction of the program, mobility decreased with the amount of transfers. The impact is …
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substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … of Africa, Latin America and Asia during the first year of COVID-19. We focus on within-country differential mobility … work-related mobility significantly less in poorer regions. Emergency income support programs seem to help people to reduce …
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Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the … potential to alter pre-pandemic routines sensitive to socialisation. This paper investigates the impact of lockdown exposure on … alcohol consumption. We document two findings using information from the Google Mobility Report and longitudinal data from the …
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lockdown. Our results reveal how, relative to regions for which the lockdown arrived 10+ days after the pandemic's outbreak …
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With the COVID-19 outbreak imposing stay at home and social distancing policies, warnings about the impact of lockdown … partner violence during the lockdown. Our results indicate that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the … impact of lockdown. We also find a large increase of domestic violence when the relative position of the man worsens …
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When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …
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of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility … respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated …
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greater mobility reductions, lower daycare capacity for childcare or higher COVID-19 infection numbers. Our findings highlight …
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During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the … (SCHEDULE-P) - and used a quasi-experimental design to study the impact of lockdown on preschool children's mental health and … lockdown and home confinement was associated with a 3.1% increase in the percentage of children at risk for mental health …
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