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Which Workers Bear the Burden of Social Distancing Policies?
Mongey, Simon - 2020
What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by narrower policy tailored to jobs with low risk of disease transmission? We use O NET to construct a measure of the likelihood that jobs can be conducted from home (a variant of...
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Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion : Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2020
The collapse of economic activity in 2020 from COVID-19 has been immense. An important question is how much of that resulted from government restrictions on activity versus people voluntarily choosing to stay home to avoid infection. This paper examines the drivers of the collapse using cellular...
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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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Gender Differences in Covid-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020
Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--
King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--
King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
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Optimal Targeted Lockdowns in a Multi-Group Sir Model
Acemoglu, Daron - 2020
be realized by having stricter lockdown policies on the oldest group. Intuitively, a strict and long lockdown for the …
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Pandemic Lockdown : The Role of Government Commitment
Moser, Christian - 2020
This paper studies optimal lockdown policies in a dynamic economy without government commitment. A lockdown imposes a …
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Optimal Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic : Social Distancing and Working from Home
Jones, Callum - 2020
We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households mitigate the spread of the disease by reducing consumption, reducing hours worked, and working from home. Working from home is subject to learning-by-doing and the capacity of the health care system is limited. A social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837189
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A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown
Alvarez, Fernando - 2020
We study the optimal lockdown policy for a planner who wants to control the fatalities of a pandemic while minimizing … the output costs of the lockdown. We use the SIR epidemiology model and a linear economy to formalize the planner … parametrize the model using data on the COVID19 pandemic and the economic breadth of the lockdown. The quantitative analysis …
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