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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
We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between aggregate labor market conditions and birth outcomes is mitigated by the consumption smoothing income assistance delivered through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a...
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Estimating Perceptions of the Relative COVID Risk of Different Social-Distancing Behaviors from Respondents' Pairwise Assessments
Heffetz, Ori; Rabin, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How do people compare bundles of social-distancing behaviors? During the COVID pandemic, we showed 676 online respondents in the US, UK, and Israel 30 pairs of brief videos of acquaintances meeting. We asked them to indicate which in each pair depicted greater risk of COVID infection. Their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388849
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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending
Dobbie, Will - 2018
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending decisions using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United … Kingdom. We motivate our analysis using a simple model of bias in lending, which predicts that profits should be identical for … marginal loan applicants by exploiting variation from the quasi-random assignment of loan examiners. We find significant bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480606
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The Coronavirus and the Great Influenza Pandemic : Lessons from the “Spanish Flu” for the Coronavirus’s Potential Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity
Barro, Robert J. - 2020
Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2.1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482047
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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times : Evidence From the OECD
Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2002
This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase when labor markets strengthen. For instance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469348
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Differential Mortality in the UK
Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2001
In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are important determinants of mortality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470483
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Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship when Migration Matters
Arthi, Vellore - 2017
boom. Overall, our results suggest that migration can meaningfully bias estimates of the impact of business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455175
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Economic Conditions and Mortality : Evidence from 200 Years of Data
Cutler, David M. - 2016
Using data covering over 100 birth-cohorts in 32 countries, we examine the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions on mortality. We find that small, but not large, booms increase contemporary mortality. Yet booms from birth to age 25, particularly those during adolescence, lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455990
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Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality
Heutel, Garth - 2013
Prior research demonstrates that mortality rates increase during economic booms and decrease during economic busts, but little analysis has been conducted investigating the role of environmental risks as potential mechanisms for this relationship. We investigate the contribution of air pollution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459703
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A Parsimonious Behavioral SEIR Model of the 2020 COVID Epidemic in the United States and the United Kingdom
Atkeson, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I present a behavioral epidemiological model of the evolution of the COVID epidemic in the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 12 months. The model includes the introduction of a new, more contagious variant in the UK in early fall and the US in mid December. The model is...
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