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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 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 the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …
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Alcohol and short-run mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Bradshaw, Debbie; Parry, Charles D. H.; … - 2021
evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find … the impact of alcohol on short-run mortality, and underscores the severe influence that alcohol has on society - even in …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518102
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
mortality and a decline in mobility. Our results have important implications for the design of local containment policies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221209
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The effectiveness of school closures and other pre-lockdown COVID-19 mitigation strategies in Argentina, Italy, and South Korea
Neidhöfer, Guido; Neidhöfer, Claudio - 2020 - This version: July 3, 2020
mortality as low as possible. Empirical analyses on the effectiveness of control measures are hereby of primary importance …. Our findings suggest that these interventions were effective at reducing the mortality rate of COVID-19, especially when …
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A virus that knows no borders? Exposure to and restrictions of international travel and the global diffusion of COVID-19
Koopmans, Ruud - 2020
-national differences in mortality rates as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic suggest that the belief that the spread of the virus could not … with higher COVID-19 mortality rates. By contrast, island states, which have lower exposure to international travel because … of their lack of land borders, have much lower mortality. The results are robust across a wide variety of model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299312
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The CoViD-19 pandemic and mental health : disentangling crucial channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre- pandemic information and have customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534589
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Spreading the disease : protest in times of pandemics
Lange, Martin; Monscheuer, Ole - 2021
This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430924
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Sleep quality and the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries
Jabakhanji, Samira; Lepinteur, Anthony; Menta, Giorgia; … - 2022 - This version: September 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to lifestyle changes across Europe with a likely impact on sleep quality. This investigation considers sleep quality in relation to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries. Using panel regressions and keeping policy responses to COVID-19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382278
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Households' financial fragility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Cziriak, Marius - 2022
I examine the financial fragility of German households during the second wave of COVID-19 infections in the winter of 2020/21 by analyzing the households’ ability to come up with EUR 2,000 within one month. About one in three households reports being unable to cover an unexpected expense of...
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