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Supply Chain Resilience : Evidence from Indian Firms

Khanna, Gaurav; Morales, Nicolas; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - 2022

-study design we find firms with suppliers in strict-lockdown districts experienced 4.5pp higher separation rates (a 15% increase …

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Paralyzed by Panic : Measuring the Effect of School Closures During the 1916 Polio Pandemic on Educational Attainment

Meyers, Keith H - 2017

We leverage the 1916 polio pandemic in the United States as a natural experiment to test whether short-term school closures result in reduced educational attainment as an adult. With over 23,000 cases of polio diagnosed in 1916, officials implemented quarantines and closed schools. Since the...

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Covid-19 Prevention and Air Pollution in the Absence of a Lockdown

Chang, Hung-hao; Meyerhoefer, Chad D.; Yang, Feng-An - 2021

Recent studies demonstrate that air quality improved during the coronavirus pandemic due to the imposition of social …

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Maximize Utility Subject to R≤1 : A Simple Price-Theory Approach to Covid-19 Lockdown and Reopening Policy

Budish, Eric B. - 2021

This paper presents a simple price-theory approach to Covid-19 lockdown and reopening policy. The key idea is to … formulation provides economics language for a policy middle ground between society-wide lockdown and ignore-the-virus, and a new …

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Does Mobility Explain Why Slums Were Hit Harder by Covid-19 in Mumbai, India?

Sheng, Jaymee; Malani, Anup; Botla, Purushotham; Goel, … - 2021

than in slums during lockdown, a subset of the period before the survey …

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Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles

Miller, Amalia R.; Segal, Carmit; Spencer, Melissa K. - 2021

Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both anecdotal accounts and academic research have found...

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A Macroeconomic Model of Healthcare Saturation, Inequality and the Output-Pandemia Tradeoff

Mendoza, Enrique G.; Rojas, Eugenio; Tesar, Linda L.; … - 2021

COVID-19 became a global health emergency when it threatened the catastrophic collapse of health systems as demand for health goods and services and their relative prices surged. Governments responded with lockdowns and increases in transfers. Empirical evidence shows that lockdowns and...

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Efficient Programs to Support Businesses During and after Lockdowns

Philippon, Thomas - 2021

I analyze efficient government interventions to mitigate financial distress during a severe macroeconomic downturn. At the macroeconomic level, the key variable is the gap between the real wage and the shadow cost of labor. This gap is large when unemployment is high. At the micro level,...

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India'S Lockdown : An Interim Report

Ray, Debraj; Subramanian, S. - 2021

We provide an interim report on the Indian lockdown provoked by the covid-19 pandemic. The main topics — ranging from … the philosophy of lockdown to the provision of relief measures — transcend the Indian case. A recurrent theme is the … response. The lockdown meets all international standards so far; the relief package none …

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Lockdowns and Innovation : Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Berkes, Enrico; Deschênes, Olivier; Gaetani, Ruben; … - 2021

Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)—policies that restrict interactions in an attempt to slow the spread of disease—on local invention. We construct a panel of issued patents and NPIs adopted by 50 large US cities during...

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