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Were Covid and the Great Recession Well-Being Reducing?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023

Using micro-data on six surveys the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, 2020-2022, the European Social Survey 2002-2020 and the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 we show...

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Social Connections and COVID-19 Vaccination

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Firsin, Oleg - 2023

This paper unpacks the effects of social networks on monthly county-level COVID19 vaccinations in the US. To parse out short-term community-level externalities where people help each other overcome immediate access barriers, from learning spillovers regarding vaccine efficacy that naturally take...

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"Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries : " a Methodological Comment

Stark, Oded - 2023

Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and COVID-19 cases and deaths," concludes that "a goal of government should be to reduce [income] inequalities and [thereby] improve [the COVID-19 outcomes /] underlying health of...

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Learning During the Pandemic : Evidence from Uzbekistan

Iqbal, Syedah; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2023

School closures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns about student learning. This paper evaluates the effect of school closures on student learning in Uzbekistan, using a unique dataset that allows assessing change in learning over time. The findings show that test scores in math for...

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The Pandemic Push : Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustments

Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023

Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...

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Social Gradients in Employment During and after the Covid-19 Pandemic

Alstadsæter, Annette; Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; … - 2023

We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent … recovery, and after the dust had settled. While we identify large and socially skewed effects of the crisis through its early … considerable negative long-term employment effects on people who were non-employed when the crisis hit. We argue that these …

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The Gendered Crisis : Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India During Covid-19

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points during pandemic relative to pre-pandemic employment, while their...

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Labour Market Reallocation Effects of COVID-19 Policies in Spain : A Tale of Two Recessions

Diaz, Antonia; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jáñez, Álvaro; … - 2023

This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the Great Recession and the pandemic recession (aka the Great Contagion) can both be understood as being driven partially by large sector-specific shocks. However, the latter shows...

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Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods

Borjas, George J. - 2020

New York City is the hot spot of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This paper merges information on the number of tests and the number of infections at the New York City zip code level with demographic and socioeconomic information from the decennial census and the American Community...

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The Case for Releasing the Young from Lockdown : A Briefing Paper for Policymakers

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2020

The UK is 'locked down' because of coronavirus (COVID-19). No clear exit strategy currently exists. This paper suggests a possible way forward that combines elements from economics and epidemiology. The paper proposes as a policy a 'release' from lockdown of the young cohort of UK citizens aged...

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