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Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic
Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Zahn, Matthew V.; Belot, Michèle - 2020
during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States using novel data collected by Belot et al. (2020). Among other factors, we …
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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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Social learning along international migrant networks
Tian, Yuan; Caballero, Maria Ésther; Kovak, Brian K. - 2020
during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations … and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social distancing behavior, we find larger declines in mobility in Mexican …
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Sudden stop: when did firms anticipate the potential consequences of COVID-19?
Buchheim, Lukas; Krolage, Carla; Link, Sebastian - 2020
COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The announcement of nation-wide school closures on March 13...
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Social networks and parental behavior in the intergenerational transmission of religion
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2011
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and peer effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both peer quality and parental effort are of importance for the religious behavior of the children. We then bring...
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For better or worse? : subjective expectations and cost-benefit trade-offs in health behavior
Conti, Gabriella; Giustinelli, Pamela - 2023
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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Unequal consequences of COVID-19 across age and income: representative evidence from six countries
Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Tripodi, Egon; Van den … - 2020
Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...
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Predictors of social distancing and mask-wearing behavior: panel survey in seven U.S. states
Nikolov, Plamen; Pape, Andreas D.; Tonguc, Ozlem; … - 2020
This paper presents preliminary summary results from a longitudinal study of participants in seven U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to standard socio-economic characteristics, we collect data on various economic preference parameters: time, risk, and social preferences, and...
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Extraordinary labor market developments and the 2022-23 disinflation
Davis, Steven J. - 2024
Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first...
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Gimme shelter : social distancing and income support in times of pandemic
Aminjonov, Ulugbek; Bargain, Olivier; Bernard, Tanguy - 2021
substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … of Africa, Latin America and Asia during the first year of COVID-19. We focus on within-country differential mobility … work-related mobility significantly less in poorer regions. Emergency income support programs seem to help people to reduce …
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