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Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for Covid-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Oikawa, Masato - 2020

We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due … to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable method with the Maimonides rule to … administrative data of public primary and middle school students in one of the largest municipalities within the City of Tokyo …

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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

Dave, Dhaval - 2020

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...

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Interventions with Positive Side-Effects : Covid-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Infectious Diseases in Europe

Kaiser, Micha; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2021

To assess the efficacy of Covid-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on infectious disease containment in Europe, we first use weekly 2015-20 data on the spread of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to compare the 2019-20 season of these diseases with the previous five....

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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases : Evidence from High Frequency Data

Adda, Jerome - 2015

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...

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Disease and Fertility : Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden

Boberg-Fazlic, Nina - 2017

This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding...

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New Evidence on the Impacts of Early Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Old-Age Mortality : A Research Note

Fletcher, Jason M. - 2018

This paper provides new evidence of the impacts of early life exposure to the 1918 pandemic on old-age mortality by analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study (n ~ 220,000). The specifications used year and quarter of birth indicators to assess the effects of timing of...

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Measuring Social and Externality Benefits of in Influenza Vaccination

White, Corey - 2019

Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural experiment, I estimate the impacts of aggregate vaccination rates...

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The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; … - 2023

How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893 1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...

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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Couch, Kenneth A. - 2020

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...

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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control Covid-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dave, Dhaval - 2020

adoption, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and border SIPO …

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