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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital
Gompers, Paul A. - 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …
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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...
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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 …
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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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Effect of a Federal Paid Sick Leave Mandate on Working and Staying at Home During the Covid-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Cellular Device Data
Andersen, Martin - 2020
We study the effects of the temporary federal paid sick leave mandate that became effective April 1st, 2020 on ‘social distancing,' as proxied by individuals' physical mobility behavior gleaned from cellular devices. The national paid leave policy was implemented in response to the COVID-19...
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Social Interactions in Pandemics : Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
Alfaro, Laura - 2020
In SIR models, infection rates are typically exogenous, whereas individuals adjust their behavior in reality. City-level data across the globe suggest that mobility falls in response to fear, proxied by Google searches. Incorporating experimentally validated measures of social preferences at the...
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