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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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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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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 to …
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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three … key properties escalate the COVID-19 pandemic into a syndemic. To address this triple crisis, we discuss the importance of … navigate long-awaited health policy transformation in areas that help us better prepare for the next pandemic. …
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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 has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether … the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so by …
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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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central and local governments to contain the CVODI-19 pandemic in 2021. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic had a more severe … reduction due to the pandemic. The poor, ethnic minorities, unskilled, non-farm workers, and those working in the service sector … showed a high but declining positive assessment of government performance in dealing with the pandemic, with 84 percent of …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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This study examines how instant online video sharing affects artists' musical streams during the pandemic. On average …
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