Search Results - subject:"Epidemic"

Ghosh, Syamal; Stowe, John D. - 2021

Viaticals are life insurance settlement contracts where the investor purchases a life insurance policy from a terminally ill policyholder. In these cases, the present value of the policyholder’s cash flows is substantially above the cash surrender value and below the face value of the policy....

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Weather, Mobility and the Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ghirelli, Corinna; González-Piñero, Andrea; Herrera, … - 2021

We estimate the effective reproduction number (Rt) of the current Covid-19 pandemic, with US daily infections data between February and September of 2020, at the county level. This is then used to estimate the effect of weather and mobility on the spread of the pandemic. We find a strong and...

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Preliminary Considerations on Mortality and Naturality in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Demanboro, Antonio Carlos - 2021

This article assesses the likely impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and birth rates in 2020, in Brazil. Data on the historical series of births and deaths, available on the Transparency of the Civil Registry, as of 2015 are presented. Population annual totals, used for the country,...

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How Much Does Covid-19 Increase with Mobility? Evidence from New York and Four Other U.S. Cities

Glaeser, Edward L.; Gorback, Caitlin; Redding, Stephen J. - 2021

How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total cases per capita decrease by 20% for every ten percentage point fall in mobility. Addressing endogeneity concerns, we instrument for travel by residential...

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Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles

Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit; Spencer, Melissa K. - 2021

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both anecdotal accounts and academic research have found...

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Are School Reopening Decisions Related to Funding? Evidence from Over 12,000 Districts During the COVID-19 Pandemic

DeAngelis, Corey; Makridis, Christos - 2021

In theory, public school districts with more funding might be more likely to reopen in person if resources are a primary driver of their reopening decisions during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, it is also possible that these decisions are influenced by other factors including political...

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How Resilient is Mortgage Credit Supply? Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fuster, Andreas; Hizmo, Aurel; Lambie-Hanson, Lauren; … - 2021

We study the evolution of US mortgage credit supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the mortgage market experienced a historic boom in 2020, we show there was also a large and sustained increase in intermediation markups that limited the pass-through of low rates to borrowers. Markups...

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The pandemic economy : exploring the change in new business license activity in Chicago, USA from March - September, 2020

Credit, Kevin; Lieshout, Emma van - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 8 (2021) 2, pp. 29-56

Since its emergence in 2019, the worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has created a vast economic crisis as government lockdowns place considerable strain on businesses of all kinds - particularly those that rely on face- to-face contact, such as retail restaurants,...

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Spatial analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary : changing epidemic waves in time and space

Uzzoli, Annamaria; Kovács, Sándor Zsolt; Fábián, Attila - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 8 (2021) 2, pp. 147-165

This paper examines the spatial dynamics and regional distribution of the novel coronavirus epidemic in Hungary in an … epidemiologic data on the spatiotemporal spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of the epidemic waves. Following a comparison of …. The partial transformation of spatial characteristics during the three epidemic waves is among the most important results …

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Impfpflicht : in einer liberalen Gesellschaft

Barbaro, Salvatore - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 101 (2021) 12, pp. 920

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