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France and Germany Exceed Italy, South Korea and Japan in Temperature-Adjusted Corona Proliferation: A Quick and Dirty Sunday Morning Analysis
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2020
Measures to contain the Corona virus (COVID-19) may pay off in terms of slowing down proliferation. The proliferation trend in France and Germany now exceeds the one in Italy, South Korea and Japan. At the same time, the containment measures seem more intense in Italy, South Korea and Japan than...
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Inter-country Distancing, Globalization and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Karabulut, Gokhan; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2020
Originating in China, the Coronavirus has reached the world at different speeds and levels of strength. This paper …
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The Distributional Impacts of Early Employment Losses from COVID-19
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment rate understates employment losses. We focus on the...
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Democracy and COVID-19 Outcomes
Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021
More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying...
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Pandemics and Intergenerational Mobility of Education: Evidence from the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epidemic in China
Liang, Wenquan; Xue, Sen - 2021
This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross …-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases … leads to a 9.3 percent increase in the maternal intergeneration transmission coefficient. The effect of the SARS epidemic is …
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Firm behavior during an epidemic
Brotherhood, Luiz; Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2020
We derive a model in which firms operate in an epidemic environment and internalize infections among their employees in … the workplace. The model is calibrated to fit the properties of the Covid-19 epidemic. We show that firms have incentives …
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security: Panel Data Evidence from Nigeria
Amare, Mulubrhan; Abay, Kibrom A.; Tiberti, Luca; … - 2020
This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to … protection policies aiming at ameliorating the impacts of the pandemic, as well as guide targeting strategies of governments and …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Weymouth, Stephen - 2020
What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Weymouth, Stephen - 2021
What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we …
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Germs, Globalization, and Trade Spillovers: How could COVID-19 affect African Economies and AfCFTA
Das, Gouranga G.; Maswana, Jean-Claude; Hirano, Yumeka - 2023
non-trade factors like epidemic or pandemic resulting in skill deficiencies, and translating into productivity slowdown … potentials resulting from the COVD-19 pandemic, as African countries are involved in intra-regional integration processes. As …
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