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The COVID-19 pandemic's effects on voter turnout
Picchio, Matteo; Santolini, Raffaella - 2021
exploiting the variation among municipalities in the intensity of the COVID-19 outbreak as measured by the mortality rate among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494052
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Pollution, infectious disease, and mortality : evidence from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...
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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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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination
Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022
A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
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Urban water disinfection and mortality decline in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Díaz Cayeros, Alberto; Miller, Grant; … - 2017
Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection often does not produce equivalent benefits in developing countries today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing an abrupt,...
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Sanctions for young welfare recipients
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013
Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...
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The consequences of a piece rate on quantity and quality : evidence from a field experiment
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, William S.; Wei, Xiangdong - 2013
workers that differ in monitoring intensity as they move from time to piece rates. The application of piece rates increases … quantity, and we find that the resultant quality can be improved with sufficient monitoring. "Committed" workers also produce … results thus show how a firm can refine its worker selection and monitoring options together with the payment system to …
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Pay for locally monitored performance? : a welfare analysis for teacher attendance in Ugandan primary schools
Cilliers, Jacobus; Kasirye, Ibrahim; Leaver, Clare; … - 2016
unincentivized local monitoring. We use these experimental impacts to undertake a detailed cost-benefit analysis and conclude, even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520974
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Shirking, standards and the probability of detection
Sessions, John G.; Skåtun, John Douglas F. - 2015
By relaxing the common efficiency wage assumption of exogenous shirking detection probabilities, we demonstrate how standards and efficiency wages are related. In a more general setting where the probability of detection depends upon the equilibrium effort level of non-shirkers, we show that the...
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