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Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020

Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...

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The Political Scar of Epidemics

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020

What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual … leadership and institutions is associated with healthcare-related policies at the time of the epidemic. In line with this … act against the epidemic, disappointing their citizens. We provide evidence of this mechanism by showing that weak …

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Revenge of the Experts : Will Covid-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?

Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Saka, Orkun - 2021

individuals with little previous training in science subjects. Finally, our evidence suggests that epidemic-induced distrust …

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Time Savings When Working from Home

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will...

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