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The impact of the coronavirus lockdown on mental health: evidence from the United States
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The coronavirus outbreak has caused significant disruptions to people’s lives. We exploit variation in lockdown measures across states to document the impact of stay-at-home orders on mental health using real-time survey data in the United States. We find that the lockdown measures lowered mental health by 0.083 standard deviations. This large negative effect is entirely driven by women. As a result of the lockdown measures, the existing gender gap in mental health has increased by 61%. The n...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/epolic/eiac002
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Economic Policy Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2022-01-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1468-0327
- ISSN:
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0266-4658
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1190083
- Local pid:
- pubs:1190083
- Deposit date:
- 2021-08-09
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- Copyright holder:
- CEPR, CESifo, Sciences Po
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © CEPR, CESifo, Sciences Po, 2022. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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