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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...

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Tracking Public and Private Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic : Evidence from State and Local Government Actions

Gupta, Sumedha - 2020

This paper examines the determinants of social distancing during the COVID-19 epidemic. We classify state and local government actions, and we study multiple proxies for social distancing based on data from smart devices. Mobility fell substantially in all states, even ones that have not adopted...

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Optimal Lockdown in a Commuting Network

Fajgelbaum, Pablo - 2020

We study optimal dynamic lockdowns against Covid-19 within a commuting network. Our framework integrates canonical spatial epidemiology and trade models, and is applied to cities with varying initial viral spread: Seoul, Daegu and NYC-Metro. Spatial lockdowns achieve substantially smaller income...

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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea - 1999

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a number of potential explanations for this fact: different...

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …

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Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development : The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy

Giorcelli, Michela; Bianchi, Nicola - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy …

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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

measures across Canadian provinces in a difference-in-differences approach. Time-series analysis for each province and for … France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy …

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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Boeri, Tito - 2019

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on …

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Income and Wealth Volatility : Evidence from Italy and the U.S. in the Past Two Decades

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2019

inequality and dynamics. Here we analyse the two concepts in a comparative perspective for the same individuals in Italy and the …

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Heterogeneous Paths of Industrialization

Huneeus, Federico - 2020

Industrialization experiences differ significantly across countries. We use a bench-mark model of structural change to shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our analysis leads to three key findings. First, benchmark...

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