Abstract We estimate the impact of strict social distancing policies on isolation, COVID-19 cases and deaths, employment in Brazil. Compiling decrees combining them with publicly available data, we identify a set treated municipalities that adopted lockdown between May June 2021 State São Paulo build control group cities from same Regional Health Departments. effects using Difference-in-Differe...

We examine firms’ employment adjustments immediately after the imposition of stringent lockdown in March 2020. In doing so, we use monthly administrative data, and take value-added tax payment changes as a proxy for demand shock. merge data with COVID-19 tests, classified by economic activity, employ fixed effects instrumental variable regression. find that all sized firms manufacturing sector ...

Abstract Background Alcohol has been associated with 10-35% trauma admissions and 40% trauma-related deaths globally. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, United Kingdom (UK) entered a state of ‘lockdown’ on 23rd March 2020. Restrictions were most significantly eased 1st June 2020, when shops schools re-opened. The purpose this study was quantify effect lockdown alcohol-related admissions. Met...

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...

To combat the spread of COVID-19, UK Government implemented a range “lockdown” measures. Lockdown has necessarily changed gambling habits gamblers in UK, and impact these measures on mental health is unknown. understand lockdown gamblers, April 2020, after ~6 weeks lockdown, participants ( N = 1,028, 72% female) completed an online questionnaire. Gambling engagement data was collected for pre-l...

The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc throughout the world, with 150 million cases to date and over 3 lives claimed worldwide. Objectives: To explore impact of lockdown on psychological health parameters i.e. depression, anxiety stress as well body mass index among medical students studying in a private college Pakistan. Study Design: Experimental study. Methodology: This study enrolled (n=23...