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Supply Chain Reliability and International Economic Growth: Impacts of Disruptions like COVID-19
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Goel, Srishti S. - 2020
importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … the challenges posed by the coronavirus crisis. This paper uses data over a recent decade for more than 130 nations to …
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Ending Covid-19 Vaccine Apartheid through Vaccine Donations: The Influence of Supply Chains
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of corruption and logistics performance likely persisted from pre-COVID times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469784
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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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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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Demand for COVID-19 Antibody Testing, and Why It Should Be Free
Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2020
We study individual demand for COVID-19 antibody tests in an incentivized study on a representative sample of the US population. Almost 2,000 participants trade off obtaining an at-home test kit against money. At prices close to zero, 80 percent of individuals want the test. However, this broad...
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The Social Cost of Contacts: Theory and Evidence for the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany
Quaas, Martin F.; Meya, Jasper N.; Schenk, Hanna; Bos, … - 2020
Building on the epidemiological SIR model we present an economic model with heterogeneous individuals deriving utility from social contacts creating infection risks. Focusing on social distancing of individuals susceptible to an infection we theoretically analyze the gap between private and...
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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
congestion per the public transportation, keeping the schools open favours the spread of the virus. In this article, by the means …
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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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