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Let's (not) get together!: The role of social norms in social distancing during COVID-19

Martinez, Deborah; Parilli, Cristina; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2021

While effective preventive measures against COVID-19 are now widely known, many individuals fail to adopt them. This paper provides experimental evidence about one potentially important driver of compliance with social distancing: social norms. We asked each of 23,000 survey respondents in...

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Do you have COVID-19? How to increase the use of diagnostic and contact-tracing apps

Martínez, Déborah; Parilli, Cristina; Rojas, Ana María; … - 2021

Diagnostic and contact tracing apps are an important weapon against contagion during a pandemic. We study how the content of the messages used to promote the apps influences adoption by conducting a survey experiment on approximately 23,000 Mexican adults. Respondents were randomly assigned to...

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Sudden stops in Latin America and the Caribbean during COVID-19

Cavallo, Eduardo A.; González, María José; … - 2022

External capital accounts suffered during the COVID-19 crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean, but perhaps surprisingly the impacts were less severe than in previous crises. Gross capital inflows offset the outflows of residents, in sharp contrast to the global financial crisis of 2008/09...

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Quantifying COVID-19's silver lining: Avoided deaths from air quality improvements in Bogotá

Blackman, Allen; Bonilla, Jorge A.; Villalobos, Laura - 2021

econometric models to estimate the effect of Bogotás lockdown on fine particulate pollution, epidemiological models to simulate … lockdown cut fine particulate pollution by more than one-fifth. However, the magnitude of that effect varied considerably over …. Finally, we estimate that in 2020-2021, the lockdown reduced short-term deaths by 31 percent, a benefit valued at $180 million. …

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Domestic violence reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Latin America

Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.; Carreras, Enrique - 2021

This article examines changes in the frequency and characteristics of domestic violence reports after the start of the pandemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions in six Latin American countries. The study uses three types of data sources: calls to domestic violence hotlines (for the...

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Crime under lockdown: The impact of COVID-19 on citizen security in the city of Buenos Aires

Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.; Schargrodsky, Ernesto; … - 2021

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown on criminal activity in the City of …

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Firm entry and exit during recessions

Ayres, Joao; Raveendranathan, Gajendran - 2021

. Compared to the productivity shock, the credit and the lockdown shocks generate larger changes in firm entry and exit. The …. The lockdown shocks predict a large fall in entry and rise in exit followed by a sharp rebound. In both recessions …

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