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COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; 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%...
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Corona monitoring nationwide (RKI-SOEP-2) : seroepidemiological study on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 across Germany
Bartig, Susanne; Brücker, Herbert; Butschalowsky, Hans; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 3/4, pp. 431-449
SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus, spread across Germany within just a short period of time. Seroepidemiological studies are … survey data offer a better understanding of the scope of the epidemic in Germany and can help in identifying target groups …
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COVID-19 Infection Data, Policy Interventions or Sentiment; What Explains International Stock Returns and Volatility?
Virk, Nader - 2021
We examine the impact of COVID-19 (C-19) pandemic on global equity markets by constructing novel infection indices. Our results show that the impact of prompt and large-scale policy interventions is ambiguous yet statistically significant. However, in this equivocality, the impact of global...
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Timing matters : the impact of response measures on COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates in Germany and Switzerland
Huber, Martin; Langen, Henrika - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/10, pp. 1-19
-related hospitalization and death rates. Our analysis exploits the fact that the epidemic was more advanced in some regions …-specific start of the epidemic and comparing outcomes across regions with earlier and later start dates. When estimating the effect … of the relative timing of measures, we control for regional characteristics and initial epidemic trends by linear …
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Impact of policy measures and behavior on the COVID pandemic in Germany
Bethäuser, Jenny - 2024
Critics protest loudly against restrictions imposed by politicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: Mandatory masks, lockdowns, school and business closures. This paper examines (1) the extent to which these policies have indirectly contributed to limiting the number of COVID-19 cases...
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How Effective are Social Distancing Policies? Evidence on the Fight Against COVID-19 from Germany
Glogowsky, Ulrich - 2020
behavior and (b) the spread of the epidemic. Combining administrative health data and cell phone data, we find that the … policies, first, heavily reduced citizens' mobility and, second, strongly contained the epidemic. In comparison to a benchmark …
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How effective are social distancing policies? : evidence on the fight against COVID-19 from Germany
Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Schächtele, Simeon - 2020
behavior and (b) the spread of the epidemic. Combining administrative health data and cell phone data, we find that the … policies, first, heavily reduced citizens' mobility and, second, strongly contained the epidemic. In comparison to a benchmark …
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My home is my castle : the benefits of working from home during a pandemic crisis : evidence from Germany
Alipour, Jean-Victor; Fadinger, Harald; Schymik, Jan - 2020
This paper studies the relation between work and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Combining administrative data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and short-time work registrations, firm- and worker-level surveys and cell phone tracking data on mobility patterns, we find that working...
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Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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The impact of COVID-19 on subjective well-being: evidence from Singapore
Cheng, Terence Chai; Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2020
We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction and domain-specific satisfaction using data from a monthly longitudinal survey of middle-aged and older Singaporeans. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we document...
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