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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Greenwood, Jeremy - 2018

Twelve percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used a third of the time. To analyze the Malawian epidemic, a choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed. In the developed framework, people select...

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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Mansour, Hani - 2020

data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …

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Lockdown Policies : A Macrodynamic Perspective for COVID-19

Busato, Francesco - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is producing a global health and economic crisis. The entire globe is facing the trade-off between health and recessionary effects. This paper investigates this trade-off according to a macro-dynamic perspective. We set up and simulate a Dynamic Stochastic General...

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Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Mortality in U.S. Cities During the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919

Barro, Robert J. - 2020

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were measured by Markel, et al. (2007) for U.S. cities during the second wave of the Great Influenza Pandemic, September 1918-February 1919. Â The NPIs were in three categories: school closings, prohibitions on public gatherings, and quarantine/isolation....

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The Political Scar of Epidemics

Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun; Aksoy, Cevat - 2021

What political legacy is bequeathed by national health crises such as epidemics? We show that epidemic exposure in an individual’s “impressionable years” (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. The effect is specific to the...

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The engine immobilizer: A non-starter for car thieves

Ours, Jan C. van; Vollaard, Ben - 2013

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union as of...

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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006

This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...

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The negative consequences of overambitious curricula in developing countries

Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - 2012

Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...

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Benefits and challenges of integrating South and Southeast Asia

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2012

In recent decades, Southeast Asian economies have prospered through an outward-oriented strategy, through intra-regional integration under the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) initiative and through participating in the East Asian production networks. In the 1970-80´s, South...

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Elections and Policies : Evidence from the COVID Pandemic

Grechyna, Daryna - 2023

This paper examines the evolution of public policies before the scheduled political elections based on the government responses to the Covid pandemic. The results of an event study in a sample of countries that experienced political elections during the first year of the pandemic suggest that...

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