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Do pandemics have lasting consequences for political behavior? We address this question by examining the consequences of the most deadly pandemic of the last millennium: the Black Death (1347-1351). Our claim is that pandemics can influence politics in the long run if they impose sufficient loss...
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This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to … insurance in high-eligibility states substantially reduced infant mortality during the 1968-69 pandemic. The reductions in …
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This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to … insurance in high-eligibility states substantially reduced infant mortality during the 1968-69 pandemic. The reductions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210395
In July 2009, the WHO declared the first flu pandemic in nearly 40 years. Although the health effects of the pandemic have been studied, there is little research examining the labor productivity consequences. Using unique sick leave data from the Chilean private health insurance system, we...
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What are the insights from historical pandemics for policymaking today? We carry out a systematic review of the literature on the impact of pandemics that occurred since the Industrial Revolution and prior to Covid-19. Our literature searches were conducted between June 2020 and September 2023,...
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counterproductive approaches that potentially deepened the urban mortality penalty. Berlin's role as a political and scientific center …
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more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …
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This article presents the situation of public health in the 19th century Greece, with an emphasis on the financing of lazarettos. Due to "ignorance" and lack of therapeutic means and hospitals, isolation was the predominant practice for dealing with illness, both on the level of local society...
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Three months into the COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the world is still in search of an effective therapeutic drug. Experimental drugs developed for other infections, such as Gilead's remdesivir, have been repurposed with unclear success. A recent small...
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