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In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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This paper identifies a new source of differences in religiosity: the presence of future tense marking in language. We … different language. …
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statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross … language structures spoken by individuals with a shared religious and ethnic background residing in the same country. We show … that speaking a gendered language is associated with the belief that intimate partner violence is justifiable. Our results …
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This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that a 1-day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and...
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education closures to estimate the loss in marginal future earnings. The findings show that the school closures reduce future …
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We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between … controlling for many confounders. We find that education played a protective role, significantly reducing mortality rates, during … 2020). We tentatively interpret this finding as the outcome of the interplay between education and public health …
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education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption …
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, followed by those targeting households, communities, and regions. Households with higher education levels or living standards …
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Employees' wellbeing is important to the firms. Analysis of job satisfaction may give insight into various aspect of labor market behavior, such as worker productivity, absenteeism and job turn over. Little empirical work has been done on the relationship between structure of working environment...
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We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural distance, and disparities in economic prosperity. To this end, we analyse 2,012 recent matches...
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