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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
-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …
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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate
Philip, Minu - 2020
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to "predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …
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Return Migrants’ Self-selection : Evidence for Indian Inventor
Breschi, Stefano - 2018
(work or education), and the permanence spell up to either the return to India or right truncation. By means of survival …
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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
Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
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Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the Covid Pandemic?
Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) allow us to elicit information about individuals' desired work...
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From Mancession to Shecession : Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510511
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Pandemics, Incentives, and Economic Policy : A Dynamic Model
Velasco, Andrés; Chang, Roberto; Martinez, Humberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The advent of a pandemic is an exogenous shock, but the dynamics of contagion are very much endogenous --and depend on choices that individuals make in response to incentives. In such an episode, economic policy can make a difference not just by alleviating economic losses but also via...
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Medicaid and Fiscal Federalism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Clemens, Jeffrey; Ippolito, Benedic N.; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on state and local government finances, with an emphasis on health spending needs and the role of the Medicaid program. We arrive at three conclusions. First, we find that nationwide, and over the entirety of the federal budget window, the enhanced...
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The Backward Art of Slowing the Spread? Congregation Efficiencies during COVID-19
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Were workers more likely to be infected by COVID-19 in their workplace, or outside it? While both economic models of the pandemic and public health policy recommendations often presume that the workplace is less safe, this paper seeks an answer both in micro data and economic theory. The...
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Risk Perceptions and Protective Behaviors : Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic
Bundorf, M. Kate; DeMatteis, Jill; Miller, Grant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze data from a survey we administered during the COVID-19 pandemic to investigate the relationship between people's subjective risk beliefs and their protective behaviors. We report three main findings. First, on average, people substantially overestimate the absolute level of risk...
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