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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … modest on average but larger for married women than for unmarried women and for those working in COVID-impacted industries …
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We quantify the macroeconomic effects of COVID-19 for emerging markets using a SIR-multisector-small open economy model and calibrating it to Turkey. Domestic infection rates feed into both sectoral supply and sectoral demand shocks. Sectoral demand shocks also incorporate lower external demand...
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2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens' and governments' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most respondents … policy responses to the pandemic. The perception of a weak government and public response is associated with higher levels of …
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This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic that have been …
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Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for … outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2 ….1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …
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Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...
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We analyze the role of international trade and health coordination in times of a pandemic by building a two … policies robustly feature inefficiently high tariffs that peak with the pandemic in the foreign economy. This distorts terms of … trade dynamics and magnifies the welfare costs of tariff wars during a pandemic due to lower levels of consumption and …
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corporate characteristics and stock price reactions to COVID-19 cases. We find that the pandemic-induced drop in stock prices …
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the COVID-19 pandemic. Fiscal space and oil-revenue dependence primarily drive the differences between the realized and …
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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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