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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative …
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Policymakers have implemented a wide range of non-pharmaceutical interventions to fight the spread of COVID-19. Variation in policies across jurisdictions and over time strongly suggests a difference-in-differences (DD) research design to estimate causal effects of counter-COVID measures. We...
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scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the … “Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses,” the paper comprises four parts: a … strands based on this review; an overview of the contributions in this special issue; and some ideas for post-pandemic …
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mobility, cases, and deaths worldwide. These flattened the pandemic curve, while deepening the global mobility recession. The …
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structural vector autoregressions. Epidemic shocks have persistently negative effects, both directly and indirectly, on affected …
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We examine the medium-term impact of COVID-19 for financial well-being and technology adoption in a low-income country. The analysis is based on regionally representative panel data consisting of 1,975 micro-entrepreneurs from rural Uganda. Using a LASSO approach, we first show that several...
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We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its … respondents are asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that self-employed individuals … COVID-19 pandemic. We conclude that future policy measures intended to mitigate such shocks should account for this …
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-and-matching frictions between criminals and crime opportunities. The study examines the impact on the four largest cities in North America … crimes while decreasing burglaries and sexual offenses through a reduction of crime opportunities. …
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The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic …
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This paper evaluates the temporary VAT reduction introduced by the German government over the third and fourth quarter of 2020 as most controversial part of the COVID-19 stimulus package. Critics argue that VAT reductions are ineffective because of limited pass-through of temporary measures to...
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