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The Distribution of COVID-19 Related Risks
Baylis, Patrick - 2020
This paper documents two COVID-related risks, viral risk and employment risk, and their distributions across the Canadian population. The measurement of viral risk is based on the VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, created to assist policymakers in determining the impacts of economic...
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Lives vs. Livelihoods : The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare
Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.; Schilbach, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession reduces the average, annual age-adjusted mortality rate by 2.3 percent …
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …
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