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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822103
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263327
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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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Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity
Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024
socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529184
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COVID-19 outbreak, social response, and early economic effects : a global VAR analysis of cross-country interdependencies
Milani, Fabio - 2020
responses to domestic and global health shocks are heterogeneous; however, they almost always exhibit delays and sluggish … adjustments. Unemployment responses vary widely across countries. Unemployment is particularly responsive to health shocks in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263745
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020
We examine the relationship between contemporaneous fine particulate matter exposure and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind direction, we show that arguably exogenous fluctuations in...
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Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? : evidence from Trump's presidential election
Costa-Font, Joan; Ljunge, Martin - 2022
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the effect of the unexpected election of a United States (US) president (Donald Trump on the 9th of...
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Past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes in Europe
Gavresi, Despina; Litina, Anastasia - 2021
This paper explores the interplay between past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes. We document that individuals who experienced a macroeconomic shock during their impressionable years (between 18 and 25 years of age), are currently more prone to voting for populist parties,...
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