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The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...
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The Covid-19 pandemic caused major shifts in the operation and fortunes of several industries within New Zealand, including an immediate impact on the workforce. In this setting, the combined epidemiological and economic responses of the government, businesses and the general public played a...
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translate to 200 traffic related deaths and 17,600 injuries avoided during the months that stay-at-home orders were in place …
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adoption, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and border SIPO …
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The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature … suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … county-level COVID-19 deaths and cases. Despite popular media coverage to the contrary, we find that counties with more Toxic …
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benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths … in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case …, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated …
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people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people …
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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 … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …
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We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between … mortality rates, during the first wave of the pandemic (between March and May 2020), but not during the second wave (between …
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