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This paper provides new evidence of the impacts of early life exposure to the 1918 pandemic on old-age mortality by … analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study (n ~ 220,000). The specifications used year and quarter of birth … indicators to assess the effects of timing of pandemic exposure and used Cox proportional hazard models for all-cause mortality …
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mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility … increase in births to married women and better-off city dwellers.Our findings help understand the link between mortality and …
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1.3 times higher than their population share. Furthermore, by combining the spatial distribution of mortality with the …-graded neighborhoods display a sharper increase in mortality, driven by blacks, while no pre-treatment differences are detected. Thus, we …
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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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in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case … benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths …, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated …
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late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …
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This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the Household Pulse Survey. Our primary research design exploits variation in vaccine eligibility across states over time as an instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of...
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador,...
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We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take-up behavior and hospitalization. Using both administrative and survey data, we implement a regression discontinuity design around the threshold at age 65, and find that the effect of...
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