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adoption of a SIPO, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and …
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This paper examines the determinants of social distancing during the COVID-19 epidemic. We classify state and local government actions, and we study multiple proxies for social distancing based on data from smart devices. Mobility fell substantially in all states, even ones that have not adopted...
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This paper documents two COVID-related risks, viral risk and employment risk, and their distributions across the Canadian population. The measurement of viral risk is based on the VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, created to assist policymakers in determining the impacts of economic...
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Canada, including regulations on businesses and gatherings, school closures, travel and self-isolation, and long-term care …, Canada's most populous province. We find that, in the first few weeks after implementation, mask mandates are associated with … could have reduced the weekly number of new cases in Canada by 25 to 40 percent in mid-August, which translates into 700 to …
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The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the … seven adjectives, a feature more prevalent in the United States than in Canada, (black, white, Hispanic and Asian in the … United States; French, English and Ethnic in Canada) have lower levels of trust than those who consider themselves Canadians …
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We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative provided $250 million to six states in 2013 for delivery system reforms. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health...
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One of the statements of purpose of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was "to assist those most impacted by the recession." The ARRA is assessed along this dimension using theoretical concepts from the risk-sharing literature. We estimate a model of income dynamics using a...
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We examine the relation between venture capital (VC) investments and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world. We find evidence of a strong positive association between VC investments and lagged M&A activity, consistent with the hypothesis that an active M&A market provides...
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This paper presents early evidence on the employment effects of state minimum wage increases enacted between January 2013 and January 2015, and offers an interpretative framework to understand why it is of interest to study recent changes in isolation. Given the ongoing transitions of many...
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We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. Our approach exploits two dimensions of the data we analyze. First, we compare workers in states that were bound by recent increases in the federal minimum wage to workers in states that were not....
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