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Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: evidence from three centuries
Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020
Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...
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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
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Can crises affect citizen activism? : evidence from a pandemic
Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2024
We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether …
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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …
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Deregulation in a time of pandemic : does pollution increase coronavirus cases or deaths?
Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020
The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature …
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Employment guaranteed? : social protection during a pandemic
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
examine the role of one of the world's largest employment guarantee schemes, India's MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one …
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Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: a field experiment in India
Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2020
Pradesh, India, in which we provide an information brief about COVID-19 by phone to a random subsample of participants to …
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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify …
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Pandemic economics and the transformation of health policy
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This …
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COVID-19 relief programs and compliance with confinement measures
Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; Mazzarella, Gianluca; … - 2021
We study the impact of a COVID-19 relief program on compliance with confinement measures in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. We match information on the allocation of funds across Italian municipalities with data tracking citizens' movements drawn from mobile devices and vehicles'...
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