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The health impacts of severe climate shocks in Colombia

Mata, Dolores de la; Valencia-Amaya, Mauricio G. - 2014

This paper studies the link between severe weather shocks in Colombia and municipality-level incidence of dengue and malaria. The unexpectedly high variability of the 2010 rainfalls relative to previous periods and their regional heterogeneity are exploited as an identification strategy. A...

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Optimal age-based policies for pandemics : an economic analysis of Covid-19 and beyond

Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2023

This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic...

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Diminishing returns : nudging Covid-19 prevention among Colombian young adults

Blackman, Allen; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021

Until a vaccine is widely available, face masks and other nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) will continue to be the frontline defense against Covid-19 in developing countries. But their effectiveness depends critically on compliance by young adults, who are most likely both to become...

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Trusting Covid-19 recommendations : the role of experts, markets and governments

Albornoz, Facundo; Cruces, Guillermo; Lombardi, María - 2023

Do individuals trust experts' advice? Does the sector represented by these experts matter for trust and compliance? Do individuals prefer the public or the private sector for large-scale responses to events such as the pandemic? We answer these questions by means of a large-scale survey on a...

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The impact of austerity on mortality and life expectancy

Berman, Yonatan; Hovland, Tora - 2024

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The impact of public expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth and income distribution in Peru

Baca Campodónico, Jorge F.; Peschiera Cassinelli, Jorge R. - 2014

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years … using a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model (DCGEM), which is an economy-wide model that describes the behavior of …

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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...

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Cash, conditions and child development : experimental evidence from a cash transfer in Honduras

López Bóo, Florencia; Creamer, John - 2018

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Mahecha, John Gomez; … - 2020

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Climate change impacts on birth outcomes in Brazil

Pereda, Paula Carvalho; Menezes, Tatiane; Alves, … - 2014

on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects. The use of climate change … effects of extreme weather. Mothers' education, sanitation access and health care assistance to pregnant women represent the … main instruments for addressing neonatal health problems …

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