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Optimal Unemployment Benefits in the Pandemic

Mitman, Kurt - 2020

How should unemployment benefits vary in response to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic? We answer this question by computing the optimal unemployment insurance response to the COVID-induced recession.We compare the optimal policy to the provisions under the CARES Act—which...

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Dynamics of Social Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada

Yuksel, Mutlu - 2020

As the number of cases increases globally, governments and authorities have continued to use mobility restrictions that were, and still are, the only effective tool to control for the viral transmission. Yet, the relationship between public orders and behavioral parameters of social distancing...

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The Political Scar of Epidemics

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020

What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual … leadership and institutions is associated with healthcare-related policies at the time of the epidemic. In line with this … act against the epidemic, disappointing their citizens. We provide evidence of this mechanism by showing that weak …

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Turnout in the Municipal Elections of March 2020 and Excess Mortality During the Covid-19 Epidemic in France

Bertoli, Simone - 2020

We analyze the consequences of the decision of French government to maintain the first round of the municipal elections on March 15, 2020 on local excess mortality in the following weeks. We exploit heterogeneity across municipalities in voter turnout, which we instrument using a measure of the...

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Timing is Everything When Fighting a Pandemic : Covid-19 Mortality in Spain

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2020

In an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe adopted social distancing measures. Previous studies have relied on the geographical and temporal variation in the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs...

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Baby Steps : The Gender Division of Childcare During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Sevilla, Almudena - 2020

The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK families with young children have been doing the...

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Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds the path for measured unemployment, depending on the...

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The Health-Wealth Trade-Off During the Covid-19 Pandemic : Communication Matters

Carrieri, Vincenzo; De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - 2021

How do people balance health/wealth concerns during a pandemic? And, how does the communication of this trade-off affect individual preferences? We address these questions using a field experiment involving around 2000 students enrolled in a large university in Italy. We design four treatments...

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Interventions with Positive Side-Effects : Covid-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Infectious Diseases in Europe

Kaiser, Micha; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2021

To assess the efficacy of Covid-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on infectious disease containment in Europe, we first use weekly 2015-20 data on the spread of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to compare the 2019-20 season of these diseases with the previous five....

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Unmet Health Care Need and Income-Related Horizontal Equity in Access During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew - 2021

wave of COVID-19 wave. Unmet need was most evident for hospital care, and less pronounced for primary health services …, there is no evidence that horizontal equity, with respect to income, was violated for NHS hospital outpatient and inpatient …

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