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Economic Policy Incentives to Preserve Lives and Livelihoods
Chang, Roberto - 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a myriad of studies and proposals on how economic policy should respond to this colossal shock. But in this debate it is seldom recognized that the health shock is not entirely exogenous. Its magnitude and dynamics themselves depend on economic policies, and...
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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response
Oster, Emily F. - 2016
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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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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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Policy Response on Health Care Utilization : Evidence from County-Level Medical Claims and Cellphone Data
Cantor, Jonathan; Sood, Neeraj; Bravata, Dena; Pera, Megan - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced federal, state and local policymakers to respond by legislating, enacting, and enforcing social distancing policies. However, the impact of these policies on healthcare utilization in the United States has been largely unexplored. We examine the impact of...
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Early Evidence on the Impact of COVID-19 and the Recession on Older Workers
Bui, Truc - 2020
We summarize some of the early effects and discuss possible future effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession on the employment outcomes of older workers in the United States. We start by discussing what we know about how older workers faired in prior recessions in the United States and how...
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Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion : Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2020
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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How New Fed Corporate Bond Programs Dampened the Financial Accelerator in the Covid-19 Recession
Bordo, Michael D.; Duca, John V. - 2021
In the financial crisis and recession induced by the Covid-19 pandemic, many investment-grade firms became unable to …
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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is … administrative costs and local corruption. Administrative reforms by the center can have perverse effects. Policy implications are …
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The Political Scar of Epidemics
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
What political legacy can we expect from the Coronavirus pandemic? Drawing evidence from past epidemics, we find that … epidemic exposure in an individual's “impressionable years” (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in … experienced epidemics under weak governments with less capacity to act against the epidemic, disappointing their citizens. We …
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Covid-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60\%...
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