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The COVID-19 epidemic in emerging markets risks a combined health, economic, and debt crisis. We integrate a standard … the epidemic. Lockdown policies are useful for alleviating the health crisis but they carry large economic costs and can … lockdowns and a more severe health crisis. We find that the social value of debt relief can be substantial because it can …
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Obesity has risen dramatically in the past few decades. However, the relative contribution of energy intake and energy expenditure to rising obesity is not known. Moreover, the extent to which social and economic factors tip the energy balance is not well understood. In this longitudinal...
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Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …
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outcomes, including employment, education, and household inequality. We develop a stylized general equilibrium model of child …
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We analyze the externalities that arise when social and economic interactions transmit infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Individually rational agents do not internalize that they impose infection externalities upon others when the disease is transmitted. In an SIR model calibrated to capture...
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significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …
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We trace the linkages between the episodes of fiscal expansion and consolidation in 72 advanced and emerging and developing economies. The findings suggest that fiscal expansions are positively associated with economic growth, which in turn is positively linked with better sustainable...
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-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio …-economic outcomes (mortality, human capital, and labor force participation), and children's health and socio-economic outcomes …
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A large literature has documented that fiscal policy is procyclical in emerging markets and developing economies and acyclical/countercyclical in advanced economies. This paper analyzes fiscal procyclicality in commodity-exporting countries. It first shows that the degree of fiscal...
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The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery. Compared to "regular" recessions, which affect men's employment more severely than women's employment, the employment drop related...
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