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Risk Aversion, Offsetting Community Effects, and COVID-19 : Evidence from an Indoor Political Rally

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

following the US coronavirus outbreak at the indoor Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) arena. In the weeks following the event, numerous … high-profile national news outlets reported that the Trump rally was "more than likely" the cause of a coronavirus surge in …

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When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption Time

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

food or medicine, caring for others, exercise, or traveling for employment deemed essential. Between March 19 and April 20 … in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case … benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths …

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

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

adoption of a SIPO, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and …

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The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event : The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

Large in-person gatherings without social distancing and with individuals who have traveled outside the local area are classified as the "highest risk" for COVID-19 spread by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Between August 7 and August 16, 2020, nearly 500,000 motorcycle...

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Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court Restart a COVID-19 Epidemic? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

Both the White House and state governors have explicitly linked thresholds of reduced COVID-19 case growth to the lifting of statewide shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This "hardwired" policy endogeneity creates empirical challenges in credibly isolating the causal effect of lifting a statewide...

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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...

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Effects of Maternal Work Incentives on Adolescent Social Behaviors

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2019

This study exploits variations in the timing of welfare reform implementation in the U.S. in the 1990s to identify plausibly causal effects of welfare reform on a range of social behaviors of the next generation as they transition to adulthood. We focus on behaviors that are important for...

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Maternal and Fetal Health Effects of Working during Pregnancy

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2019

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth outcomes but also on maternal employment. We match the...

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News that Takes Your Breath Away : Risk Perceptions During an Outbreak of Vaping-related Lung Injuries

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

We study the impact of new information on people's perceptions of the risks of e-cigarettes. In September 2019 the U.S. experienced an outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, associated lung injuries (EVALI). The EVALI outbreak created an information shock, which was followed by additional new...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Parenting

Reichman, Nancy - 2020

This study investigated the effects of welfare reform in the 1990s, which represented a major policy shift that substantially and permanently retracted cash assistance to poor mothers in the U.S., on parenting. Using data on women from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth...

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