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Breaking the Fall : Successful Homeless Interventions in the COVID Pandemic

Flaming, Daniel; Pickens, Seth; Burns, Patrick - 2023

Government income and housing interventions during the COVID pandemic had demonstrable benefits in reducing the growth of homelessness. Comparisons of projected versus actual growth in Los Angeles County from 2020 to 2022 validate the benefit of these interventions.This report offers three types...

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Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people's life satisfaction : evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data

Neugebauer, Martin; Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; … - 2023

How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction...

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In Harm's Way : California Workers at High Risk of Unemployment in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Flaming, Daniel; Burns, Patrick - 2021

This report estimates the demography, occupations, industries, and communities of California workers who have a high risk of unemployment in the 2020 Covid recession so that they and their employers can be located and provided with timely and effective assistance for preventing economic...

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Democratizing the Economy or Introducing Economic Risk? Gig Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Auguste, Daniel; Roll, Stephen; Despard, Mathieu - 2022

Though the growth of the gig economy has coincided with increased economic precarity in the new economy, we know less about the extent to which gig work (compared with other self-employment arrangements and non-gig work) may fuel economic insecurity among American households. We fill this gap in...

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Modern infectious diseases: macroeconomic impacts and policy responses

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2020

We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...

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Impact of COVID-19 on poverty and living standards in Ghana : a micro-perspective

Bukari, Chei; Essilfie, Gloria; Aning-Agyei, Millicent … - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has become a global epidemic, hit Ghana on 12 March 2020 and, in … less than a week, increased by over 300% with two deaths. As of 11 August 2020, Ghana had recorded over 41,000 cases with … Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty …

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Climate Change, Epidemics and Inequality

Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - 2022

What are the links between climate change, epidemics and socioeconomic inequality? While recent epidemics have focused attention on the effects of epidemics on economic outcomes, and a separate literature in climate science and environmental health has linked global environmental change to...

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Education without formal schooling through tablets and tutors : evidence from out-of-school children in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic

Glewwe, Paul; Li, Zhigang; Loyalka, Prashant; Rahman, … - 2024

This paper estimates the impact on children's learning of one specific education technology (EdTech) intervention in Bangladesh: providing tablets with educational software, combined with private tutoring, to out-of-school students using a randomized control trial. The provision of tablets and...

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The unequal inequality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2021

GDP contractions are typically associated with within-country income inequality increases. While official income inequality data for 2020 will not be available for about two years, the already available employment data for 2020 shows that the difference between highly-educated and low-educated...

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Employment and labour market vulnerabilities during COVID-19 : the case of Romania

Chivu, Luminita; Georgescu, George - 2021

The extremely fragile balance of the Romanian labour market is severely affected by the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and by the sudden and almost general deterioration of the macroeconomic context and the business environment. The present study aims to argue that, in times of crisis,...

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