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crisis. Using common factor analysis, we demonstrate that people’s lives are mainly affected in two ways: First, a notable …. Second, many people suffer from socio-economic consequences of the crisis, including a discontinuation of employment, a …
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related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have …
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countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its mobility restrictions have been an external shock, influencing wellbeing. However, does … differential timing of the effect of the pandemic across European countries, and the different stringency of lockdown to examine … lockdown took effect. However, such effects are wiped out when a country exhibits high mortality ('pandemic category 5'). Hence …
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Although enrollment at California’s four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the …. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic … dropped precipitously during the pandemic – the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …
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This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....
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alternative evolution of the pandemic, assuming that states extended the lockdown measures until daily new cases reach the levels …
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Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic. After more than three months … message is that there is no "health vs. economics" dichotomy. Rather, some degree of lockdown is typically optimal in crisis …
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We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
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relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and …
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