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Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020
Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space
Lambert, Peter; Hansen, Stephen; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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Lethal Unemployment Bonuses? Substitution and Income Effects on Substance Abuse, 2020-21
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
amount, timing, and composition of the 240,000 deaths involving alcohol and drugs since early 2020 can be explained by income … cheap fentanyl. Drug mortality dipped in the months between the $600 and $300 bonuses, especially for age groups …
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A Two Covid-19 Years Quartile Comparison of Official with Excess Mortality : Voice and Accountability and the Impact of Vaccines
Aizenman, Joshua - 2022
excess mortality data. Contrasting countries' rankings using these two data sources reveal sharp and systematic differences …. While higher GDP per capita is associated with a worse mortality ranking when using official Covid-19 mortality, there is no … such sharp association when using excess mortality data. By the end of 2021, the quartile rankings of three-fifths of the …
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Mortality Rates by College Degree Before and During COVID-19
Case, Anne; Deaton, Angus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
It is now established that mortality and excess mortality from COVID-19 differed across racial and ethnic groups in … 2020. Less is known about educational differences in mortality during the pandemic. We examine mortality rates by BA status … within sex, age, and race/ethnic groups comparing 2020 with 2019. Mortality rates have increasingly differed by BA status in …
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality
Agrawal, Virat; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Sood, Neeraj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
SIP policies, we measure the change in excess deaths following the implementation of SIP policies in 43 countries and all … U.S. states. We use an event study framework to quantify changes in the number of excess deaths after the implementation … of a SIP policy. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases. The increase in …
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The Great Unequalizer : Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
Alsan, Marcella; Chandra, Amitabh; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the … excess mortality relative to trend, compared to a less than 15 percent increase for Whites; we find losses in potential years …
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The Virus, Vaccination, and Voting
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Kotti, Randy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. Presumably it corrects for a positive effect of observed local Covid deaths on the decision to get vaccinated. Overall, the …
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Using Household Rosters from Survey Data to Estimate All-cause Mortality during COVID in India
Malani, Anup; Ramachandran, Sabareesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
between COVID and excess deaths, the pattern of excess deaths is consistent with COVID-associated mortality. Excess deaths …Official statistics on deaths in India during the COVID pandemic are either incomplete or are reported with a delay. To … overcome this shortcoming, we estimate excess deaths in India using the household roster from a large panel data set, the …
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