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Leveraging patients' social networks to overcome tuberculosis underdetection : a field experiment in India
Goldberg, Jessica; Macis, Mario; Chintagunta, Pradeep K. - 2018
over health workers in both identifying new patients and providing them credible information, but they are rare in that … more effective than health workers in bringing in new suspects for testing, and low-cost incentives of about $US 3 per … health workers and can be a valuable tool in combating infectious disease. …
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Is the cure worse than the disease? : county-level evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Kaushal, Neeraj; Muchow, … - 2020
Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...
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Addressing vaccine hesitancy using local ambassadors : a randomized controlled trial in Indonesia
Islam, Asad; Kusnadi, Gita; Rezki, Jahen Fachrul; Sim, … - 2023
communication approach. To investigate which type of ambassador - health cadres, influential individuals, and laypersons - is the …
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COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking
Smart, Shanike J.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2024
We assess whether the COVID-19 vaccine induces COVID-19 risky behavior (e.g., going to bars and restaurants) and thus reduces vaccine efficacy. A key empirical challenge is the endogeneity bias when comparing risk-taking by vaccination status since people choose whether to get vaccinated. To...
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Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint
Miclo, Laurent; Spiro, Daniel; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2020
How much and when should we limit economic and social activity to ensure that the health-care system is not overwhelmed …
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Life cycle economics with infectious and chronic diseases
Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2022
In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …
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The shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171007
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More than words: leaders' speech and risky behavior during a pandemic
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel da - 2021
This paper investigates if the anti-scientific rhetoric of modern populists can induce followers to engage in risky behavior. We gather electoral information, in-person card transactions, and geo-localized mobile phone data for approximately 60 million devices in Brazil. After the president...
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Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: evidence from three centuries
Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020
Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...
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