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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
Although enrollment at California’s four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the...
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Covid-19 and capital flows : the responses of investors to the responses of governments
Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2021
This paper examines the effect of national government response measures to Covid-19 on German international capital flows. Analyzing highly disaggregated monthly data from the German balance of payments statistics over the period from January 2019 through January 2021, we find that bilateral...
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Drivers of Covid-19 vaccinations : vaccine administration and delivery efficiency in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US …
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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Demand for COVID-19 antibody testing, and why it should be free
Garcia, Marta Serra; Szech, Nora - 2020
We study individual demand for COVID-19 antibody tests in an incentivized study on a representative sample of the US population. Almost 2,000 participants trade off obtaining an at-home test kit against money. At prices close to zero, 80 percent of individuals want the test. However, this broad...
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The social cost of contacts : theory and evidence for the COVID-19
Quaas, Martin F.; Meya, Jasper; Schenk, Hanna; Bos, Björn - 2020
Building on the epidemiological SIR model we present an economic model with heterogeneous individuals deriving utility from social contacts creating infection risks. Focusing on social distancing of individuals susceptible to an infection we theoretically analyze the gap between private and...
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What policies address both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis?
Engström, Gustav; Gars, Johan; Jaakkola, Niko; … - 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has led many countries to initiate unprecedented economic recovery packages. Policymakers … tackling the coronavirus crisis have also been encouraged to prioritize policies which help mitigate a second, looming crisis …: climate change. We identify and analyze policies that combat both the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis. We analyze …
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
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Religious attendance and COVID-19 : evidences from Italian regions
Alfano, Vincenzo; Ercolano, Salvatore; Vecchione, Gaetano - 2020
By changing many aspects of everyday life, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distance policies implemented to face it have affected the behaviour of many people, all over the world. Has the pandemic also affected people approach toward the divine? Previous evidences suggest that the prayer...
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The geographic spread of COVID-19 correlates with structure of social networks as measured by Facebook
Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; Stroebel, Johannes - 2020
We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to show that areas with stronger social ties to two early COVID-19 “hotspots” (Westchester County, NY, in the U.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally have more confirmed COVID-19 cases as of March 30, 2020. These relationships hold after...
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