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Turnout in the Municipal Elections of March 2020 and Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Epidemic in France

Bertoli, Simone; Guichard, Lucas; Marchetta, Francesca - 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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Exploring the Relationship between Care Homes and Excess Deaths in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Italy

Alacevich, Caterina; Cavalli, Nicolò; Giuntella, Osea; … - 2020

We explore the relationship between the spatial distributions of excess deaths and care home facilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March 31st, 2015-2020) for Lombardy, one of the areas hit most severely, we estimate that...

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Education, Information, and COVID-19 Excess Mortality

Bello, Piera; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021

We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between …

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Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2023

economic consequences, iii) discuss adjustment mechanisms for individuals and economies, iv) propose a simple economic …

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Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity

Hong, Kai; Savelyev, Peter A.; Tan, Kegon T.K. - 2020

We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect … potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … longevity is well explained by observed mechanisms. Furthermore, we find that for women, the positive effect of education on …

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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program

Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai; Zhou, Jin - 2020

This paper evaluates the causal impacts of an early childhood home visiting program for which treatment is randomly assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We identify average treatment effects of skills on performance...

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The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills

Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai - 2022

This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood home visiting program. We show the feasibility of replicating it at scale. We estimate vectors of latent skills for individual children and compare treatments and controls. The...

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How Good Am I? Effects and Mechanisms behind Salient Ranks

Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2022

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The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control

Carpenter, Christopher S.; Dobkin, Carlos; Warman, Casey - 2014

is known about mechanisms. We use the universe of Canadian mortality records to document that Canada's Minimum Legal …

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The Mechanisms of Alcohol Control

Carpenter, Christopher S.; Dobkin, Carlos; Warman, Casey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

is known about mechanisms. We use the universe of Canadian mortality records to document that Canada's Minimum Legal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105048