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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
Dave, Dhaval - 2020
adoption of a SIPO, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and …
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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections
Liu, Laura - 2020
We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...
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The Impacts of Covid-19 on Minority Unemployment : First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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Fatalism, Beliefs, and Behaviors During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Akesson, Jesper - 2020
Little is known about individual beliefs concerning the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Still less is known about …
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Impacts of State Reopening Policy on Human Mobility
Nguyen, Thuy Dieu - 2020
This study quantifies the effect of state reopening policies on daily mobility, travel, and mixing behavior during the … COVID-19 pandemic. We harness cell device signal data to examine the effects of the timing and pace of reopening plans in … different states. We quantify the increase in mobility patterns during the reopening phase by a broad range of cell …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833116
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The Cost of Privacy : Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of Covid-19 Cases
Argente, David - 2020
South Korea publicly disclosed detailed location information of individuals that tested positive for COVID-19. We quantify the effect of public disclosure on the transmission of the virus and economic losses in Seoul. The change in commuting patterns due to public disclosure lowers the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833121
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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks
Hong, Harrison G. - 2020
We develop a model of pandemic risk management and firm valuation. We introduce aggregate transmission shocks into an epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth but firms can mitigate damages. We estimate a...
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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics
Lin, Zhixian - 2020
Covid-19 is the single largest threat to global public health since the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Was the world better prepared in 2020 than it was in 1918? After a century of public health and basic science research, pandemic response and mortality outcomes should be better than in...
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The Macroeconomics of Testing and Quarantining
Eichenbaum, Martin - 2020
assumption, there is no role for testing. To study the general equilibrium e§ects of testing on economic outcomes, we develop a … with quarantines, testing dramatically reduces the economic costs of the epidemic. This reduction is particularly dramatic …
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Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19
Lin, Zhixian - 2020
We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical policy interventions (NPIs) like “stay-at-home” orders on the spread of infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly associated with slower growth of Covid-19 cases....
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