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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher - 2020
This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic that have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481964
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Taking the Measure of a Fatal Drug Epidemic
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016
This analysis utilizes death certificate data from the Multiple Cause of Death (MCOD) files to better measure the specific drugs involved in drug poisoning fatalities. Statistical adjustment procedures are used to provide more accurate estimates, accounting for the understatement in death...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456174
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The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect
Costinot, Arnaud - 2016
The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home tend to have larger sales of the same products abroad. In this paper, we develop a simple test of the home-market effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456141
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The Virus, Vaccination, and Voting
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Kotti, Randy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate across US counties, as of August 12, 2021. Controlling for poverty rates, age, and temperature lowers the magnitude of the estimate a little. Using the Biden-Trump vote in the 2020 election as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616633
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Using Household Rosters from Survey Data to Estimate All-cause Mortality during COVID in India
Malani, Anup; Ramachandran, Sabareesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
between COVID and excess deaths, the pattern of excess deaths is consistent with COVID-associated mortality. Excess deaths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616639
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Understanding Spatial Variation in COVID-19 across the United States
Desmet, Klaus - 2020
We analyze the correlates of COVID-19 cases and deaths across US counties. We consider a wide range of correlates - population density, public transportation, age structure, nursing home residents, connectedness to source countries, etc. - finding that these variables are important predictors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481523
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Misinformation During a Pandemic
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2020
misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481612
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Heterogeneity in Damages from A Pandemic
Finkelstein, Amy; Kocks, Geoffrey; Polyakova, Maria; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
the pandemic on all-cause mortality and on employment were concentrated in the same racial, ethnic, and education groups …, with non-White individuals and those without a college degree experiencing higher excess all-cause mortality as well as a … to the virus and to economic contractions - can explain 15 percent of the Hispanic-White difference in excess mortality …
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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Pandemic : Lessons from the “Spanish Flu” for the Coronavirus’s Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for … outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2 ….1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …
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Identification and Estimation of Undetected COVID-19 Cases Using Testing Data from Iceland
Aspelund, Karl M. - 2020
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed them at a high presumed risk of infection. Testing regimes of this sort potentially result in a high proportion of cases going undetected. Quantifying this...
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