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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
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of COVID-19
Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022
Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We draw on an instrumental variable strategy exploiting individual level information …
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Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality : evidence across 21 European countries
Fawaz, Yarine; Mira, Pedro - 2022
isolation index and mortality, which is much stronger in Eastern countries. While all of our pooled countries estimates ranged … between a 20 to 30% increase in the mortality hazard for the socially isolated, that number jumps to 45% for the Eastern … observe. Up to 13 percent of the effect of baseline social isolation on mortality can be imputed to the combined one …
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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 - we show individuals' reports of subjective wellbeing in Europe did decline in the … in the last decade. However, so too have negative affect in Europe and despair in the United States. …
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Intergenerational ties and case fatality rates : a cross-country analysis
Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2020
COVID-19 is spreading and has reached the state of a worldwide pandemic and health systems are or will be tested in how they can deal with it. So far, during this early phase of the pandemic, outcomes in terms of case-fatality rates (CFR) differ widely across countries. We explore how...
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Trust in the time of corona
Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Justino, Patricia; … - 2020
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping not just public health and the economy but also...
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Income tax policy in Europe between two crises : from the great recession to the COVID-19 pandemic
Myck, Michał; Trzcińsk, Kajetan - 2022
inequality. Despite significantly faster wage growth in the examined post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe …
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The COVID-19 curtain: can past Communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe?
Berniell, Inés; Fawaz, Yarine; Laferrère, Anne; Mira, … - 2021
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates … decisions across Europe? To study this question we exploit novel data from the second wave of the SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) Covid-19 Survey fielded in Summer 2021 that covers 27 European countries and Israel. First …
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The European crisis and migration to Germany : expectations and the diversion of migration flows
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2013
The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the …
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COVID-19 and the European education performance decline : a focus on primary school children's reading achievement between 2016 and 2021
Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Granato, Silvia - 2023
education performance decline in Europe by providing information on 20 year reading achievement trends, average performance … Europe by first comparing countries' education distributions between 2016 and 2021 and second by investigating changes in the …
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