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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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Pandemics, vaccines and corporate earnings
Hong, Harrison G.; Kubik, Jeffrey D.; Wang, Neng; Xu, Xiao - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301888
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When do shelter-in-place orders fight COVID-19 best? : policy heterogeneity across states and adoption time
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
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Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 : evidence from six large cities
Benitez, Joseph A.; Courtemanche, Charles; Yelowitz, … - 2020
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Misinformation during a pandemic
Bursztyn, Leonardo; Rao, Akaash; Roth, Christopher; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250593
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Remote work and the heterogeneous impact of COVID-19 on employment and health
Angelucci, Manuela; Angrisani, Marco; Bennett, Daniel; … - 2020
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Economic interests, worldviews and identities : theory and evidence on ideational politics
Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - 2021
We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...
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Will destination-based taxes be fully exploited when available? : an application to the U.S. commodity tax system
Agrawal, David R.; Mardan, Mohammed - 2018
We develop a tax competition model that allows for the setting of both an origin-based and a destination-based commodity tax rate in the presence of avoidance and evasion. In the presence of evasion, jurisdictions will give cross-border shoppers tax preferential treatment, thus not fully...
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Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies using data for the national, state and local level and elaborate on checks and balances, especially divided government, measurement of government ideology and empirical...
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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government
Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...
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