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The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa
McGuirk, Eoin - 2017
We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...
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The Economic Ripple Effects of COVID-19
Buera, Francisco; Jaef, Roberto N. Fattal; Hopenhayn, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
What are the effects of a temporary lockdown of the economy? Do firms' deteriorating balance sheets and labor market frictions propagate and prolong the effects? We answer these questions in a model with financial and labor market frictions. The model makes quantitative predictions about the...
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Norwegian and US Policies Alleviate Business Vulnerability Due to the Covid-19 Shock Equally Well
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2020
distribution of business revenue shock due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We rely on it to analyze the impact of business support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481185
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EMEs and COVID-19 : Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
Alfaro, Laura - 2020
shock caused by lockdowns, the idiosyncratic demand shock suffered by sectors that rely on high contact with their costumers …
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Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19 : Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?
Guerrieri, Veronica - 2020
supply shocks are possible, under some conditions. A 50% shock that hits all sectors is not the same as a 100% shock that …
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COVID-19 and The Macroeconomic Effects of Costly Disasters
Ludvigson, Sydney C. - 2020
calibrated by the cost of March 2020 Coronavirus relief packages, the shock is forecast to lead to a cumulative loss in … disaster shock on economic activity and on uncertainty is studied using a VAR. While past natural disasters are local in nature … of large disaster shocks. Even in a fairly conservative case where COVID-19 is a 5-month shock with its magnitude …
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Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002
We examine the effects of cold weather periods on family budgets and on nutritional outcomes in poor American families. Expenditures on food and home fuels are tracked by linking the Consumer Expenditure Survey to temperature data. Using the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination...
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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
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women, who are likely to be especially vulnerable, in lower-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and...
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Did COVID-19 Market Disruptions Disrupt Food Security? Evidence from Households in Rural Liberia and Malawi
Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2020
We quantify the effect of market disruptions due to COVID-19 on the lives of households in rural areas of Liberia and Malawi, utilizing panel data from phone surveys that were implemented as part of a randomized cash transfer experiment. The surveys began collection several months before the...
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From Syringes to Dishes : Improving Food Security through Vaccination
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Tekin, Erdal; You, Shijun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the Household Pulse Survey. Our primary research design exploits variation in vaccine eligibility across states over time as an instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of...
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