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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dave, Dhaval - 2020

One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...

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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan, and South Korea

Bloom, David E. - 2017

of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …

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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response

Oster, Emily F. - 2016

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data … on vaccinations and outbreaks to estimate whether vaccinations respond to disease outbreaks. I find that the pertussis …

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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The Distribution of Covid-19 Related Risks

Baylis, Patrick; Beauregard, Pierre-Loup; Connolly, Marie; … - 2021

This paper documents two COVID-related risks, viral risk and employment risk, and their distributions across the Canadian population. The measurement of viral risk is based on the VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, created to assist policymakers in determining the impacts of economic...

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Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, the Netherlands, and the United States

Banks, James W.; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - 2021

This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the US, the UK and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In the US and the Netherlands, respondent evaluations of...

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The value of sick pay

Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2021

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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E. - 2013

of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We present results for the five main NCDs (cardiovascular disease …, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, and mental health). Our undiscounted estimates indicate that the cost of the … most costly domains are cardiovascular disease and mental health, followed by respiratory disease. Our analyses also reveal …

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Covid-19 Doesn't Need Lockdowns to Destroy Jobs : The Effect of Local Outbreaks in Korea

Aum, Sangmin - 2020

Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk (DG), had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...

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The Impacts of COVID-19 Illnesses on Workers

Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan - 2022

We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...

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