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We show that the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing information about the safety, effectiveness, and availability of COVID- 19 vaccines affects compliance...
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Healthy ageing in the personal, social, economic and political perspectives / Ben Y.F. Fong and Wang-Kin Chiu -- Policy analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong, China based on multiple streams framework / Vincent T.S. Law and Ben Y.F. Fong -- World-wide impacts on aged care during and after...
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This paper evaluates the dynamic impact of various policies, such as school, business, and restaurant closures, adopted by the US states on the growth rates of confirmed Covid-19 cases and social distancing behavior measured by Google Mobility Reports, where we take into consideration of...
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a smart and flexible lockdown, based on data, testing, decentralization, demographics and appropriate economic support …When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed …
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We investigate how politico-economic factors shaped government responses to the spread of COVID-19. Our simple framework uses epidemiological, economic and politico-economic arguments. Confronting the theory with US state level data we find strong evidence for partisanship even when we control...
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health and economic factors in a pandemic and how appropriate “lockdown”, income transfer, and loan policies could be …, they need to incorporate important heterogeneities across age groups and types of location. Importantly, to be useful in …
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Substantial weaknesses in the preparation by public health authorities and governments increased the health and economic costs of the Covid-19 pandemic relative to what they would have been if pre-existing recommendations had been followed and a wider set of plans had been put into place....
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