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Heterogenous impacts of climate change on morbidity

Hajdu, Tamás - 2025

This paper examines the effect of temperature on emergency department (ED) visits using administrative data covering 50% of the Hungarian population and 3.52 million ED visits from 2009 to 2017. The results show that ED visit rates increase when average temperatures exceed 10°C, primarily...

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Re-examining adaptation theory using big data : reactions to external shocks

Greyling, Talita; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2022

During the global response to COVID-19, the analogy of fighting a war was often used. In 2022, the world faced a … different war altogether, an unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since 2020 the world has faced these unprecedented shocks … investigate the effect on happiness. By investigating the aforementioned, we also re-examine the adaptation theory and see whether …

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Delving into the eye of the cyclone to quantify the cascading impacts of natural disasters on life satisfaction

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

The catastrophic effects of natural disasters on social and economic systems are well-documented; however, their impacts on individual life satisfaction remain insufficiently understood. This study pioneers a causal analysis of cyclones' impacts on Australians' life satisfaction, using local...

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Germs, globalization, and trade spillovers : how could COVID-19 affect African economies and AfCFTA

Das, Gouranga Gopal; Maswana, Jean-Claude; Hirano, Yumeka - 2023 - Draft version

Drawing on selective stylized facts, the paper evaluates the growth-effects for African countries and the disruptive potentials resulting from the COVD-19 pandemic, as African countries are involved in intra-regional integration processes. As AfCFTA involving 55 countries (ratified by 22...

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How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Vu Minh Ngo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Nguyen Van Phuc; … - 2021 - Draft: November 11, 2021

Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand the process to vaccination success. We identify a variety of factors playing a crucial role including the availability of vaccines, pandemic pressures, economic strength (GDP),...

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A literature review of the economics of COVID-19

Brodeur, Abel; Gray, David M.; Islam, Anik; Bhuiyan, … - 2020 - This version: July 5, 2020

The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...

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Drawing policy suggestions to fight Covid-19 from hardly reliable data : a machine-learning contribution on lockdowns analysis

Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2020

Feedback control-based mitigation strategies for COVID-19 are threatened by the time span occurring before an infection is detected in official data. Such a delay also depends on behavioral, technological and procedural issues other than the incubation period. We provide a machine learning...

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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19

Dang, Hai-Anh; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...

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Managing the impact of climate change on migration : evidence from Mexico

Chort, Isabelle; De La Rupelle, Maëlys - 2017

This paper uses state-level migration ow data between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden). Our results suggest that lower than...

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic improve global air quality? : new cross-national evidence on its unintended consequences

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2020

Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on air quality. We offer the first study that provides cross-national evidence on the causal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution. We assemble a rich database consisting of daily,...

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