The social cost of contacts: Theory and evidence for the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

• Martin F. Quaas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: martin.quaas@idiv.de

  Current address: Biodiversity Economics Group, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany

  Affiliations Department of Economics, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0812-8829

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• Jasper N. Meya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Economics, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1598-3014

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• Hanna Schenk,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Economics, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Björn Bos,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0242-474X

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• Moritz A. Drupp,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, CESifo, Munich, Germany

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• Till Requate

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Economics, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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