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Risk Perception Through the Lens of Politics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Barrios, John M.; Hochberg, Yael V. - 2020
potentially significant externalities for public health outcomes. Relying solely on compliance with voluntary suggested measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342569
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South Africa's response to the Covid-19 pandemic: The crisis in the context of the history of South African capitalism
Scully, Ben - 2023
This paper is part of a comparative project on the Varieties of Covid-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South. The project employs a comparative analysis of two industries-automobiles and clothing/textiles-across four countries in order to analyze the impacts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317121
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State and capital in the context of COVID-19 in India: Some implications for globalisation
Jha, Praveen K.; Goyal, Meghna - 2023
The interdependence of the State and business is widely recognised across many disciplines and frameworks. This paper examines the State-capital nexus in India during the neoliberal era, focusing on how the State has facilitated accelerated primitive accumulation for large capital by selectively...
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Reflections on Angela Merkel's career as chancellor of Germany and the Greek financial odyssey
Zestos, George K.; Whittleton, Harrison; … - 2022
Angela Merkel is the second-longest-serving chancellor of modern Germany, with more than 16 years in office. During her tenure there were many years of economic stability, but there were also years of domestic, EU, and geopolitical tensions. Merkel inherited an economy that was recovering after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322574
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Smoking: Taxing health and social security
Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2006
While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292226
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294907
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Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; von Hinke … - 2017
There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039281
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Is it the way you live or the job you have? Health effects of lifestyles and working conditions
Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo - 2017
, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous … multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each health measure: an indicator of self-assessed health, an indicator of … physical health, an indicator of work-related mental health problems, using Danish data for 2000 and 2005. We find that while …
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Sources of US longevity increase, 1960 - 1997
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2000
this paper we investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the annual time …-series behavior of U.S. longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and output … annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual data are …
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Four stylized facts about COVID-19
Atkeson, Andrew; Kopecky, Karen A.; Zha, Tao - 2020
We document four facts about the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic that are relevant for those studying the impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on COVID-19 transmission. First, across all countries and U.S. states that we study, the growth rates of daily deaths from COVID-19 fell from a...
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