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Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low … for Vietnam. We employ difference-in-differences econometric models to estimate the causal effects of the lockdown, using …
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Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design of restrictions that target specific travel routes. We propose a model with trade-offs between...
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distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a … pandemic …
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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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This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR epidemiological model with individual choices regarding how much time to spend working and consuming outside the house, both of which increase the risk of transmission. Individuals...
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-crisis weaknesses: Firms that appear relatively weak before the crisis are harder hit initially, and, on top of the initial impact …
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The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce … spread of the pandemic that might easily spill over to other countries. A supranational, coordinated health and fiscal policy …
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This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad …
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, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing and wearing a face mask), beliefs about the Covid 19 pandemic and exposure to … the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. In each country, the samples are … calibrating certain parameters used in economic and epidemiological models, or for documenting the impact of the crisis on …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread …
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