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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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Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249128
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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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Vaccines at Work
Hoffmann, Manuel - 2020
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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Does Policy Communication During Covid-19 Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for Covid-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area
Oikawa, Masato - 2020
to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable method with the Maimonides rule to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829220
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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...
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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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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60%...
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Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of Covid-19
Bargain, Olivier - 2020
While degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socioeconomic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when compliance is required for collective survival. We illustrate this point in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. Policy responses all over the...
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