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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 …
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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate
Philip, Minu - 2020
India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to “predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …
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Marry for What : Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - 2022
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
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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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Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic
Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2020
We study the role of global supply chains in the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on GDP growth for 64 countries. We discipline the labor supply shock across sectors and countries using the fraction of work in the sector that can be done from home, interacted with the stringency with which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833120
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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks
Hong, Harrison G. - 2020
epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth …
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Us Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic
Ganong, Peter - 2020
We use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and...
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Covid-19 and Emerging Markets : An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks and Capital Flows
Çakmaklı, Cem - 2020
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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Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials for Anti‐Infective Therapeutics During Epidemic Outbreaks
Chaudhuri, Shomesh - 2020
path during such outbreaks. When the epidemic is more infectious and fatal, the Bayesian-optimal sample size in the … and the regulatory approval process to the specific parameters and stage of the epidemic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833747
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Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Outpatient Providers in the Us
Chatterji, Pinka - 2020
There is growing concern that the COVID-19 pandemic may have severe, adverse effects on the health care sector, a sector of the economy that historically has been somewhat shielded from the business cycle. In this paper, we study one aspect of this issue by estimating the magnitude of the...
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