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Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic? : evidence from a natural experiment
Palguta, Ján; Levínský, René; Škoda, Samuel - 2021
Elections define representative democracies, but also produce spikes in physical mobility if voters need to travel to electoral rooms. In this paper, we examine whether large-scale, in-person elections propagate the spread of COVID-19. We exploit a natural experiment from the Czech Republic...
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Sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health in Greece : a repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health deteriorated across time points during the economic...
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Does expanding access to cannabis affect traffic crashes? : county-level evidence from recreational marijuana dispensary sales in Colorado
Gunadi, Christian - 2021
This article examines the effect of recreational cannabis dispensary sales on traffic crashes by employing difference …-related hospital discharges after the entry of retail cannabis stores. However, there is a lack of evidence that traffic crash …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650404
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The perceived social rejection of sexual minorities : substance use and unprotected sexual intercourse
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
cannabis consumption and unprotected sexual intercourse in the capital of Greece, Athens. This is the first Greek study to … associated with the increased consumption of tobacco (by 9.1%, P <0.01), alcohol (by 7.1%, P <0.01), and cannabis (by 12.5%, P <0 … is stronger for men than women and there is increased cannabis consumption during periods of deteriorated economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257321
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Early cannabis use and school to work transition of young men
Williams, Jenny; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach … accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to … competing risk. We find that early cannabis use leads young men to accept job offers more quickly and at a lower wage rate …
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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161478
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Place of birth and cognitive function among older Americans : findings from the harmonized cognitive assessment protocol
Lin, Zhuoer; Chen, Xi - 2024
Growing evidence suggests that place of birth (PoB) and related circumstances may have long-lasting and multiplicative contributions to various later-life outcomes. This study investigates the extent to which PoB contributes to a wide range of domains of later-life cognitive function. Leveraging...
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Key links in network interactions : assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic
Chen, Xi; Qiu, Yun; Shi, Wei; Yu, Pei - 2022
We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the...
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Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic : does a public health or medical background help?
Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy response and performance for disease control and prevention within and across nations. It remains unclear to what extent these variations may be explained by bureaucrats'...
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Act early to prevent infections and save lives : causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic
Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2021
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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