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Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing : Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19
Arthi, Vellore - 2020
How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19 pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost--taken together, this public health crisis and its attendant economic downturn appear poised to dwarf the scope, scale, and disruptiveness of most modern pandemics....
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response on Health Care Utilization : Evidence from County-level Medical Claims and Cellphone data
Cantor, Jonathan H. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced federal, state and local policymakers to respond by legislating, enacting, and enforcing social distancing policies. However, the impact of these policies on healthcare utilization in the United States has been largely unexplored. We examine the impact of...
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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
number of loans per employer business or loan amounts per employee, and the minority share of the population or businesses in … round of 2020. We find a stronger positive relationship between minority share and loan numbers or amounts to employer … similar for loan numbers and amounts to nonemployer businesses but with a strong positive relationship with minority share for …
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The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies
Ma, Lin; Shapira, Gil; De Walque, Damien; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown. To formalize and quantify this effect, we build a macro-susceptible-infected-recovered...
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality
Agrawal, Virat; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Sood, Neeraj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
As a way of slowing COVID-19 transmission, many countries and U.S. states implemented shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. However, the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health. The effect of SIP policies on COVID-19...
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A Final Report Card on the States' Response to COVID-19
Kerpen, Phil; Moore, Stephen; Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Almost exactly two years ago COVID-19 spread to the United States. Following the federalism model, the 50 states and their governors and legislators made many of their own pandemic policy choices to mitigate the damage from the virus. States learned from one another over time about what policies...
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Researchers' Degrees-of-Flexibility and the Credibility of Difference-in-Differences Estimates : Evidence From the Pandemic Policy Evaluations
Weill, Joakim A.; Stigler, Matthieu; Deschênes, Olivier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented policy responses and a large literature evaluating their impacts. This paper re-examines this literature and investigates the role of researchers' degrees-of-flexibility on the estimated effects of mobility-reducing policies on social-distancing...
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Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Han, Jeehoon - 2020
in the pandemic and receipt was uneven across the states, with some states not reaching a large share of their out of …
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Electoral Concerns Reduce Restrictive Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pulejo, Massimo - 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 has called for swift action by governments, often involving the adoption of restrictive measures such as lockdowns. In this context, leaders have faced a trade-off between imposing stringent measures to limit the contagion, and minimizing the costs on their national...
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Unintended Consequences of Lockdowns : COVID-19 and the Shadow Pandemic
Ravindran, Saravana - 2020
Violence against women is a problem worldwide, with economic costs ranging from 1-4% of global GDP. Using variation in the intensity of government-mandated lock-downs in India, we show that domestic violence complaints increase 0.47 SD in districts with the strictest lockdown rules. We find...
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