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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal...
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Weight Gains from Trade in Foods : Evidence from Mexico
Giuntella, Osea - 2019
food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food … 2012. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a …
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Slow Traffic, Fast Food : The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice
B, Panka; Lusher, Lester; Taylor, Rebecca - 2023
Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost …
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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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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Social Distancing : Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020
This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is...
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Covid-19 Lockdowns and Decline in Traffic Related Deaths and Injuries
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2020
This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
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An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Epidemic : The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies
Brotherhood, Luiz - 2020
This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …
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Firm-Level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the Covid-19 Crisis
Buchheim, Lukas - 2020
This paper studies the determinants of firms' business outlook and managerial mitigation strategies in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis using a representative panel of German firms. We first demonstrate that the crisis amplifies pre-crisis weaknesses: Firms that appear relatively weak before the...
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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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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
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