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The fast spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has resulted in the emergence of several hot … case incidence is robust in the presence of data on health-related preconditions, proxies for symptom severity, and …
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This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...
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villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … collected baseline measures of sanitation conditions, behavior, and child health, and re-visited households 21 months later. The … child health outcomes (diarrhea, helminth infections, child growth). However, the exposure period was likely to have been …
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How do conditional cash transfers impact health-related outcomes? This paper examines the 2010 randomized introduction … visits by those already complying with program health conditions and by non-compliers -- disappeared after 2.5 years, largely … due to compliers reducing above-minimal visits. The study finds significant increases in take-up of health insurance and …
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results suggest that the sooner non-pharmaceutical interventions are implemented, the better are the economic and health …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the …
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward …
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The virus that triggered a localized shock in China is now delivering a significant global shock. This study simulates the potential impact of COVID-19 on gross domestic product and trade, using a standard global computable general equilibrium model. It models the shock as underutilization of...
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As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from the pandemic as it continues to unfold. Estimating the economic impacts of a prevailing pandemic is fraught with uncertainties about the epidemiology of the disease and the...
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