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We analyze the correlates of COVID-19 cases and deaths across US counties. We consider a wide range of correlates - population density, public transportation, age structure, nursing home residents, connectedness to source countries, etc. - finding that these variables are important predictors of...
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groups and causes in the ratio of actual-to-baseline deaths, and in the contribution of COVID-19 to excess mortality. Prior … research has frequently underestimated baseline deaths and so has overstated excess mortality and the percentage of it …
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COVID-19 Pandemic struck in 2020 and hit the minority community much harder than whites in terms of mortality rates. Besides …
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of a SIP policy. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases. The increase in … excess mortality is statistically significant in the immediate weeks following SIP implementation for the international … of the policy. At the U.S. state-level, excess mortality increases in the immediate weeks following SIP introduction and …
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the pandemic on all-cause mortality and on employment were concentrated in the same racial, ethnic, and education groups …, with non-White individuals and those without a college degree experiencing higher excess all-cause mortality as well as a … to the virus and to economic contractions - can explain 15 percent of the Hispanic-White difference in excess mortality …
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Almost exactly two years ago COVID-19 spread to the United States. Following the federalism model, the 50 states and their governors and legislators made many of their own pandemic policy choices to mitigate the damage from the virus. States learned from one another over time about what policies...
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rates during the COVID-19 pandemic via a linkage of 2017 voter registration in Ohio and Florida to mortality data from 2018 …
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mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …
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India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of around 2.2%. The world average rate is far higher, at around 4%. Several observers have noted that this difference is at least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In...
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This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality …
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