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Propagation of Epidemics' Economic Impacts via Production Networks : The Cases of China and ASEAN during SARS and COVID-19
George, Ammu - 2020
Two decades after the SARS outbreak, Asia is confronted with COVID-19 which has caused a greater economic impact to the region. In this paper, using China and the ASEAN's experiences of SARS and COVID-19 as a case study, we aim to identify the economic impact of a pandemic that is associated...
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Firm-level exposure to epidemic diseases: COVID-19, SARS, and H1N1
Hassan, Tarek A.; Hollander, Stephan; Lent, Laurence van; … - 2020
We introduce a new word pattern-based method to automatically classify firms' primary concerns related to the spread of epidemic diseases raised in their quarterly earnings conference calls. We construct text-based measures of the costs, benefits, and risks listed firms in the US and over 80...
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Influenza Vaccination Implementation for Sri Lanka : A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Neighbors, Coralei; Myers, Evan R.; Bodinayake, Champica; … - 2022
Influenza causes an estimated 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness annually, along with substantial morbidity and mortality, particularly in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Currently, Sri Lanka has no influenza vaccination policies and does not offer vaccination within the public...
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Did California's shelter-in-place order work? : early coronavirus-related public health effects
Friedson, Andrew; McNichols, Drew; Sabia, Joseph J.; … - 2020
Coronavirus has credited the State of California for taking early action to prevent a statewide COVID-19 outbreak, no study has … examined the impact of California's SIPO. Using daily state-level coronavirus data and a synthetic control research design, we … approximately 2 to 4 job losses per coronavirus case averted and 108 to 275 jobs losses per life saved during this short-run post …
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Were urban cowboys enough to control COVID-19? : local shelter-in-place orders and coronavirus case growth
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
adoption, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and border SIPO …
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222357
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223833
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Black Lives Matter protests, social distancing, and COVID-19
Dave, Dhaval; Friedson, Andrew; Matsuzawa, Kyutaro; … - 2020
Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225449
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Estimated future mortality from pathogens of epidemic and pandemic potential
Madhav, Nita K.; Oppenheim, Ben; Stephenson, Nicole; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450697