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predictions across four global pandemics in three different centuries: the influenza pandemics that began in 1889, 1918, 1957, and …
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The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link between mental health and sociodemographic as well...
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. We find that foot traffic and retail sales decreased only within a 300 meter radius of the cluster and recovered to its …
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The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The … trust correlates with the individual experiences of the pandemic. The analysis is based on a new global survey - 'Life with …
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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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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify …
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This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …
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exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries …We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We …, merging them with information on the incidence of epidemics and local 3G internet infrastructure. Epidemic exposure is …
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We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on …
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