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Effect of a Federal Paid Sick Leave Mandate on Working and Staying at Home During the Covid-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Cellular Device Data

Andersen, Martin - 2020

We study the effects of the temporary federal paid sick leave mandate that became effective April 1st, 2020 on ‘social distancing,' as proxied by individuals' physical mobility behavior gleaned from cellular devices. The national paid leave policy was implemented in response to the COVID-19...

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Societal disruptions and childhood ADHD diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic

Freedman, Seth; Marquardt, Kelli; Salcedo, Dario; … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 59 (2024), pp. S187-S226

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Direct and Indirect Effects of Vaccines : Evidence from COVID-19 in Schools

Freedman, Seth; Sacks, Daniel W.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Vaccines influence the course of pandemics both directly, by protecting the vaccinated, and indirectly, by reducing transmission to the unvaccinated, a key externality. Estimating direct effects is challenging because of selective vaccine take-up; estimating indirect effects also poses...

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Societal disruptions and child mental health : evidence from ADHD diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic

Freedman, Seth; Marquardt, Kelli; Salcedo, Dario; … - 2023

We study how the societal disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted diagnosis of a prevalent childhood mental … a single state's comprehensive electronic health records, we compare children exposed to the pandemic to same aged … children prior to the pandemic. We find the pandemic reduced new ADHD diagnoses by 8.6% among boys and 11.0% among girls …

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Does paid sick leave encourage staying at home? : evidence from the United States during a pandemic

Andersen, Martin; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Pesko, … - In: Health economics 32 (2023) 6, pp. 1256-1283

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Societal disruptions and child mental health: Evidence from ADHD diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic

Freedman, Seth; Marquardt, Kelli; Salcedo, Dario; … - 2023

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Impacts of State Reopening Policy on Human Mobility

Nguyen, Thuy Dieu - 2020

COVID-19 pandemic. We harness cell device signal data to examine the effects of the timing and pace of reopening plans in … pandemic continues …

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Determinants of Disparities in Covid-19 Job Losses

Montenovo, Laura - 2020

We make several contributions to understanding the socio-demographic ramifications of the COVID-19 epidemic and policy responses on employment outcomes of subgroups in the U.S., benchmarked against two previous recessions. First, monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) data show greater declines...

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Is the Cure Worse than the Problem Itself? Immediate Labor Market Effects of Covid-19 Case Rates and School Closures in the U.S

Lozano-Rojas, Felipe - 2020

The relationship between population health and measures of economic well-being and economic activity is a long standing topic in health economics (Preston, 1975; Cutler, Deaton, and Lleras-Muney, 2006; Ruhm, 2000). The conceptual issues in analyzing the complicated link between health and economic...

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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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