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This study examines the impact on human mobility of the national social distancing policies implemented in 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries in March 2020. To do so, it uses georeferenced data from cellular phones and variation between countries with regard to whether these measures were...
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This study examines the impact on human mobility of the national social distancing policies implemented in 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries in March 2020. To do so, it uses georeferenced data from cellular phones and variation between countries with regard to whether these measures were...
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probability of vaccination against polio, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus-once leading causes of child morbidity and infant … mortality. In addition, untimely vaccination costs governments billions per year in treatment and rehabilitation. …
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optimal. When eradication is feasible, the optimal program requires either a low vaccination rate or eradication. A high … vaccination rate is never optimal. Under special conditions, the results are especially stark: the optimal policy is either not to …
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, qualitative, and quantitative dynamic norms, on actual vaccination rates. Contrary to our hypothesis, dynamic norms alone fail to … influence second-dose HPV vaccination rates for these trendsetters. However, the study reveals a 5.22 percent increase …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains...
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