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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
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When externalities collide: influenza and pollution
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Neidell, Matthew; Sanders, … - 2021
Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The … common pathways through which each harms health presents an interesting case of compounding risk via interacting …
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Optimal travel restrictions in epidemics
Shi, Wei; Qiu, Yun; Yu, Pei; Chen, Xi - 2022
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
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EU jobs at highest risk of COVID-19 social distancing: will the pandemic exacerbate labour market divide?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Branka, Jiri - 2020
This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is...
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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic
Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022
This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...
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Key links in network interactions: assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chen, Xi; Qiu, Yun; Shi, Wei; Yu, Pei - 2022
ranging from ex ante route-specific travel restrictions to ex post health measures based on travel histories, and from the …
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COVID-19 relief programs and compliance with confinement measures
Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; Mazzarella, Gianluca; … - 2021
We study the impact of a COVID-19 relief program on compliance with confinement measures in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. We match information on the allocation of funds across Italian municipalities with data tracking citizens' movements drawn from mobile devices and vehicles'...
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Job loss and food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021
Nutritious eating habits contribute to a stronger immune system necessary for prevention and easier recovery from illnesses. A job loss, experienced by millions of Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to negatively affect food security of families. This research explores the...
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Long social distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …
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