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How does exposure to Covid-19 influence health and income inequality aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2021

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …

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Motivated beliefs and the elderly's Compliance With Covid-19 Measures

Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021

Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals might not comply with the COVID-19 measures to reassure themselves that they...

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The usual suspects : does risk tolerance, altruism, and health predict the response to COVID-19?

Sheth, Ketki; Wright, Greg C. - 2020

find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …-existing health conditions may not voluntarily comply, resulting in higher health care congestion than otherwise expected. …

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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...

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Experts and epidemics

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2020

Do experts adjust their policy recommendations when the facts change? We conduct a large-scale randomized experiment among 1,224 economic experts across 109 countries that includes two treatments. The first treatment is the geographic and temporal variation in the initial spread of Covid-19...

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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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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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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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Wind of change? : experimental survey evidence on the COVID-19 shock and socio-political attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F. M.; … - 2020

the health and economic effects of the crisis, as well as a potential “rally around the ag” component. We find that the … social welfare spending financed by taxes. This is largely due to economic insecurity, but also because of health concerns. A …

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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of Covid-19

Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

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