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Health system trust and compliance with COVID-19 restrictions
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023
We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with pandemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from two representative...
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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic: comparing alternative value frameworks
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Bloom, David E. - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to make difficult ethical choices, e.g., how to balance public health and socioeconomic activity and whom to prioritize in allocating vaccines or other scarce medical resources. We discuss the implications of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and...
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Failing to pull together: South Africa's troubled response to COVID-19
Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020
When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
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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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Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brito, Emilia; Clarke, Damian; … - 2021
We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on … domestic violence (DV). Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition increases indicators of DV-related distress … by lockdown status. Once lockdown is lifted, police reports surge but we see a ratchet effect in distress. Our findings …
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Does policy communication during COVID-19 work?
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
. Differences in number of beds per capita, number of tests, and early lockdown measures help explain the higher impact of COVID on …
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The design of disease maps shapes perceptions of threat and public policy preferences
Engel, Claudia; Rodden, Jonathan; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
Choropleth disease maps have become the main tool for communicating information about the geography of health threats to the public. These maps have the potential to shape perceptions of threat, preferences about policy, and perhaps even behavior, but they are unfortunately often poorly designed...
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Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: does a public health or medical background help?
Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy …
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