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COVID-19 Mobility Policies Impacts: How Credible Are Difference-in-Differences Estimates?
Weill, Joakim A.; Stigler, Matthieu; Deschenes, Olivier; … - 2021
paper re-examines and add to the evidence on the impact of COVID-19 mobility-restricting policies on mobility indicators. We … found to significantly increase or decrease mobility, depending on the specification. Therefore, due to the large number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658261
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COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China
Zhang, Yuting; Zhao, Jin; Yu, Zhangsheng; Wang, Guanghai; … - 2024
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567537
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Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Bloom, David E. - 2020
This paper examines the impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an exogenous policy on diagnostic confirmation, we show that a one- day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322548
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Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2021
This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that a 1-day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012617528
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2021
We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882522
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Vaccination recommendations and timeliness: The German measles case
Kucher, Andreas - 2019
High vaccination rates have a social protection function in addition to individual prevention of infections and diseases. To reach herd immunity thresholds and to protect risk groups, the timeliness of immunization is an important goal for vaccination policy. There is currently no causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057005
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A Hard Look at "Soft" Cost‐control Measures in Healthcare Organizations: Evidence from Preferred Drug Policies in Germany
Avdic, Daniel; Blankart, Katharina - 2021
Cost‐control interventions that target physicians' clinical discretion are common in healthcare, but evidence on their efficacy is scarce; in particular for "soft" policies when liability is unlikely to be enforced by the regulator. We study the effectiveness of preferred drug policies (minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000571
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Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikolaos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we … changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227678
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Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we … changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269971
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#Stayat home: Social distancing policies and mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean
Aromi, Daniel; Bonel, María Paula; Cristia, Julián; … - 2020
This study examines the impact on human mobility of the national social distancing policies implemented in 18 Latin … countries with regard to whether these measures were introduced and when. Mobility is measured as the percentage of people … traveling more than 1 kilometer per day. Results indicate that lockdowns reduced mobility by an average of 10 percentage points …
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