Departamento de Ingeniería Comercial, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago, Chile.
School of Business and Economics, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
Sci Rep. 2022 Aug 25;12(1):14514. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-18514-z.
We study how the Chilean population's well-being responded to the strategy implemented by their health authorities, known as Dynamic Quarantine, to contain the spread of coronavirus in which municipalities periodically entered and exited lockdowns. This unique scheme, together with the population's socioeconomic heterogeneity, facilitates the estimation of changes in this well-being as differentiated by socioeconomic status. Using Google Trends to compute measures of well-being, we find strong evidence that socioeconomic status induces heterogeneity in these changes; thus, neglecting this heterogeneity may lead to misleading prescriptions for the public policy that addresses the psychological effects of lockdowns.
我们研究了智利民众的福祉如何对其卫生当局实施的动态隔离策略做出反应，该策略旨在控制冠状病毒的传播，在此期间，各城市定期进入和退出封锁状态。这种独特的方案，加上人口的社会经济异质性，便于根据社会经济地位来估计这种幸福感的变化。我们使用谷歌趋势来计算幸福感的衡量标准，发现强有力的证据表明，社会经济地位会导致这些变化产生异质性；因此，忽视这种异质性可能会导致针对解决封锁对心理健康影响的公共政策产生误导性建议。
