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Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy

Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This …

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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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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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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022

We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60%...

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Social Stability Challenged : Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses

Perugini, Cristiano - 2020

The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic inequalities. In this paper we provide a framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other...

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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19

Belot, Michele - 2020

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...

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Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence from Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns

Krekel, Christian - 2020

Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to …

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Lives and Livelihoods : Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Decerf, Benoit - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...

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Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic : Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?

Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy …

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Does the Covid-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on its Unintended Consequences

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on air quality. We offer the first study that provides cross-national evidence on the causal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution. We assemble a rich database consisting of daily,...

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