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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
effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country … outcomes of these students through the first four semesters after it started. Consistent with national trends, enrollment … dropped precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …
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Learning in lockdown : university students' academic performance during COVID-19 closures
Whitelaw, Emma; Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348554
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Social interactions, mechanisms, and equilibrium : evidence from a model of study time and academic achievement
Conley, Timothy G.; Mehta, Nirav; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - 2018
We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...
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V for vaccines and variants
Delli Gatti, Domenico; Reissl, Severin; Turco, Enrico - 2021
) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the …, increasing the volatility of epidemic curves and worsening the macroeconomic outlook. If a more contagious variant emerges after …
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Optimally controlling an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We propose a flexible model of infectious dynamics with a single endogenous state variable and economic choices. We characterize equilibrium, optimal outcomes, static and dynamic externalities, and prove the following: (i) A lockdown generically is followed by policies to stimulate activity....
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Measuring the economic risk of COVID-19
Noy, Ilan; Nguyen Doan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2020
, vulnerability, and resilience of the local economy to the shock of the epidemic. Using a battery of proxies for these four concepts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231556
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The economic impacts of a pandemic : what happened after SARS in 2003?
Nguyen Doan; Nguyen Phuc Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
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Firm behavior during an epidemic
Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2020
We derive a model in which firms operate in an epidemic environment and internalize infections among their employees in … the workplace. The model is calibrated to fit the properties of the Covid-19 epidemic. We show that firms have incentives …
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On the optimal "lockdown" during an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
discovery, learning effects in the health care sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206448
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Should contact bans be lifted in Germany? : a quantitative prediction of Its effects
Donsimoni, Jean Roch; Glawion, René; Plachter, Bodo; … - 2020
Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of COVID19 if RSC were upheld after April 20. We employ these findings and feed them into our...
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