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Sri Lankan Households a Decade after the Indian Ocean Tsunami
De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2016
We estimate the causal effect of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka on household income and consumption eight years after the event, using a quasi-experimental method. A strong association between area-wide tsunami disaster shock and increases in household income and consumption in the...
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The Cost of Being Under the Weather: Droughts, Floods, and Health Care Costs in Sri Lanka
De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2017
We measure to cost of extreme weather events (droughts and floods) on health care in Sri Lanka. We find that frequently occurring local floods and droughts impose a significant risk to health when individuals are exposed directly to these hazards, and when their communities are exposed, even if...
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What Policies Address Both the Coronavirus Crisis and the Climate Crisis?
Engström, Gustav; Gars, Johan; Jaakkola, Niko; … - 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has led many countries to initiate unprecedented economic recovery packages. Policymakers … tackling the coronavirus crisis have also been encouraged to prioritize policies which help mitigate a second, looming crisis …: climate change. We identify and analyze policies that combat both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis. We analyze …
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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Religious Attendance and Covid-19. Evidences from Italian Regions
Alfano, Vincenzo; Ercolano, Salvatore; Vecchione, Gaetano - 2020
By changing many aspects of everyday life, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distance policies implemented to face it have affected the behaviour of many people, all over the world. Has the pandemic also affected people approach toward the divine? Previous evidences suggest that the prayer...
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A Synthetic Control Method Analysis of Schools Opening and Covid-19 Outbreak in Italy.
Alfano, Vincenzo; Ercolano, Salvatore; Cicatiello, Lorenzo - 2020
Schools have been very central in the debate about COVID-19. On one hand, there have been many supporters of the argument to keep them open, for their importance for the youngsters, and for the effort many countries played in establishing protocols to keep them safe. On the other hand, a...
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Drivers of Covid-19 Vaccinations: Vaccine Administration and Delivery Efficiency in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US …
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022
Although enrollment at California’s four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the...
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Covid-19 and Capital Flows: The Responses of Investors to the Responses of Governments
Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2021
This paper examines the effect of national government response measures to Covid-19 on German international capital flows. Analyzing highly disaggregated monthly data from the German balance of payments statistics over the period from January 2019 through January 2021, we find that bilateral...
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The Geographic Spread of COVID-19 Correlates with Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; Stroebel, Johannes - 2020
We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to show that areas with stronger social ties to two early COVID-19 "hotspots" (Westchester County, NY, in the U.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally have more confirmed COVID-19 cases as of March 30, 2020. These relationships hold after...
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