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We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...
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Accurate counts of cases and deaths are critical for devising an optimal pandemic response. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, so too has the recognition that cases and deaths have been underreported, perhaps vastly so. Here, we present an econometric strategy to estimate the true...
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We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and benefits to quantify utility tradeoffs, decompose group differences in compliance, and compute...
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The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial … because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most studies investigating such effects only identify correlations … literature by investigating neighbourhood effects on occupational mobility separately for social renters, private renters and …
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little attention so far is that some residents will have a desire to leave their neighbourhood, but are unable to do so. The … neighbourhood are actually successful, and to which neighbourhoods they move. A more thorough insight in who wants to leave which … are less likely to realise a desire to leave their neighbourhood and that if they succeed in moving from an ethnic …
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Theory behind neighbourhood effects suggests that different geographies and scales affect individual outcomes. We argue … that neighbourhood effects research needs to break away from the tyranny of neighbourhood and consider alternative ways to … and empirical approaches to place and space from a multitude of disciplines and the geographical scopes of neighbourhood …
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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 infections continued to grow exponentially, placing the...
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Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using...
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We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...
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Over the first half of March 2021, the majority of European governments suspended Astrazeneca's Vaxzevria vaccine as a precaution following media reports of rare blood clots. We analyse the impact of the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) March 18th statement assuring the public of the safety of...
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