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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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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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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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An old plug and a new virus : effect of public corruption on the Covid-19 immunization progress
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622723
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Pandemics and economic growth : evidence from the 1968 H3N2 influenza
Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2020
We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates as a proxy for the country-specific severity of the pandemic, we find that the average mortality rate (0.0062% per pandemic wave) was associated with declines in consumption...
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Globalization and outbreak of COVID-19 : an empirical analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, Mehdi; Fereidouni, … - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by …
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The Japanese textile sector and the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920
Noy, Ilan; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the connection between the epidemiology of a virus, the structure of the economy and society that becomes exposed to it, and the actions chosen by government and by individuals and communities to combat it or ameliorate its economic impact....
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Do pandemics change healthcare? : evidence from the great influenza
Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022
Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza...
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Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint
Miclo, Laurent; Spiro, Daniel; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2020
during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU resources are constrained while suppression is costly (e.g., limiting … suppression measures are continuously taken to hold down the spread throughout the epidemic, is suboptimal. Instead, the optimal … suppression is discountinuous. The epidemic should be left unregulated in a first phase and when the ICU constraint is approaching …
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Combatting Covid-19 : on relative performance of the Indian States
Marjit, Sugata; Mukhopadhyay, Anish Kumar; Chatterjee, Medha - 2020
The purpose of this paper is to construct a relative performance index for the States in India in terms of their performance in combatting Covid-19 pandemic. The data is analyzed up to August, 2020, though the methodology used can be readily extended to update the index. The methodology can be...
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