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Household Vulnerability to Income Shocks in Emerging and Developing Asia : The Case of Cambodia, Nepal and Vietnam

De Stefani, Alessia; Laws, Athene; Sollaci, Alexandre - 2022

We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to income shocks arising from the Covid-19 pandemic: occupation in Cambodia, self-insurance mechanisms in Nepal, and financial leverage in Vietnam. Occupation and ex-ante income...

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Good Will Hunting : Do Disasters Make Us More Charitable?

Cevik, Serhan - 2023

Humans are usually compassionate, caring and empathetic toward others, but are we really hardwired for altruism when a disaster hits? There is evidence that people exposed to natural disasters tend to behave more philanthropically, but most studies rely on small-scale surveys and experimental...

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Financial Concerns and the Marginal Propensity to Consume in COVID Times : Evidence from UK Survey Data

Albuquerque, Bruno; Green, Georgina - 2022

We study how household concerns about their future financial situation may affect the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a representative survey of UK households to compute the MPC from a hypothetical transfer of £500. We find that household expectations...

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Far More than a Shot in the Arm : Vaccines and Consumer Spending

Cevik, Serhan - 2023

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and government interventions have reshaped economic activity with abrupt changes in household consumption behavior across the world. This paper provides an empirical investigation of how the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has affected consumer spending at daily...

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How Effective Were Job-Retention Schemes During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Microsimulation Approach for European Countries

Lam, W. Raphael; Solovyeva, Alexandra - 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic had posed a dramatic impact on labor markets across Europe. Forceful fiscal responses have prevented an otherwise sharper contraction. Many countries introduced or expanded job-retention schemes to preserve jobs and support households. This paper uses a microsimulation...

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Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Their Effects on Health Outcomes

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022

This paper examines empirically the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes. We … assemble a comprehensive and novel cross-country database at a daily frequency on vaccinations and various health outcomes (new …’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …

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