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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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What Caused the US Pandemic-Era Inflation?
Blanchard, Olivier; Bernanke, Ben - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
short-run and long-run inflation expectations. The estimated model allows us to analyze the direct and indirect effects of … product-market and labor-market shocks on prices and nominal wages and to quantify the sources of U.S. pandemic-era inflation … and wage growth. We find that, contrary to early concerns that inflation would be spurred by overheated labor markets …
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Pandemic, War, Inflation : Oil Markets at a Crossroads?
Baumeister, Christiane - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
fluctuations associated with these events are also discussed, as is their role in the recent surge of inflation, with a particular …
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938701
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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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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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