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small and statistically insignificant. Â The likely reason that the NPIs were not more successful in curtailing mortality is …
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We investigate how an artist's death impacts on the price of her artwork by estimating individual death effects of a sample of famous visual artists who died between 1985 and 2010. Using data from art auctions that took place in a narrow window around the artists' death, we apply various...
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Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for …
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evidence that an increase in child mortality and Cholera deaths as well as a decrease in public spending on health care are …
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There are two types of prescription drug cost offsets. The first type of cost offset—from prescription drug use—is primarily about the effect of changes in drug quantity (e.g. due to changes in out-of-pocket drug costs) on other medical costs. The second type of cost offset—the cost offset...
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more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …
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We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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time to study the link between longevity and global warming. It is seen that increasing longevity accelerates climate … implemented via a cap-and-trade system, the price of emission permits is increasing in longevity. Longevity has no effect on the …, the impact of longevity is ambiguous …
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utility due to the longevity of other groups participating in the same pension scheme. Linking retirement age to average life … expectancy magnifies the negative effect on the lifetime utility of those who suffer low longevity. Furthermore, when the income … of those with greater longevity increases, those with shorter life expectancy become even worse off. Conversely, when the …
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weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …
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