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Pandemics, Incentives, and Economic Policy : A Dynamic Model

Velasco, Andrés; Chang, Roberto; Martinez, Humberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The advent of a pandemic is an exogenous shock, but the dynamics of contagion are very much endogenous --and depend on choices that individuals make in response to incentives. In such an episode, economic policy can make a difference not just by alleviating economic losses but also via...

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Optimal Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic : Social Distancing and Working from Home

Jones, Callum J. - 2020

We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households mitigate the spread of the disease by …

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Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment

Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …

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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate

Philip, Minu - 2020

India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to "predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …

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Marry for What : Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2009

This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...

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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...

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Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic?

Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) allow us to elicit information about individuals' desired work...

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From Mancession to Shecession : Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions

Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...

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Medicaid and Fiscal Federalism During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Clemens, Jeffrey; Ippolito, Benedic N.; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on state and local government finances, with an emphasis on health spending needs and the role of the Medicaid program. We arrive at three conclusions. First, we find that nationwide, and over the entirety of the federal budget window, the enhanced...

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The Backward Art of Slowing the Spread? Congregation Efficiencies during COVID-19

Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Were workers more likely to be infected by COVID-19 in their workplace, or outside it? While both economic models of the pandemic and public health policy recommendations often presume that the workplace is less safe, this paper seeks an answer both in micro data and economic theory. The...

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