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Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: evidence from three centuries
Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020
Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...
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Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Social Distancing
Andersson, Ola; Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando; … - 2021
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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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225440
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227934
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Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces social distancing
Andersson, Ola; Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423758
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Taming the spread of an epidemic by lockdown policies
Federico, Salvatore; Ferrari, Giorgio - 2020
We study the problem of a policymaker who aims at taming the spread of an epidemic while minimizing its associated … characterized by three distinct periods: the epidemic is first let freely evolve, then vigorously tamed, and finally a less …
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The geography of pandemic containment
Giannone, Elisa; Paixão, Nuno; Pang, Xinle - 2021 - Last updated: June 10, 2021
How does interconnectedness affect the course of a pandemic? What are the optimal withinand between-state containment policies? We embed a spatial SIR model into a multi-sector quantitative trade model. We calibrate it to US states and the COVID-19 pandemic and find that interconnectedness...
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Social distancing, vaccination and evolution of Covid-19 transmission rates in Europe
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2022
This paper provides estimates of COVID-19 effective reproduction numbers and explains their evolution for selected European countries since the start of the pandemic taking account of changes in voluntary and government mandated social distancing, incentives to comply, vaccination and the...
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The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2020
coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout the city during March 2020 … "The Coronavirus Epidemic Curve is Already Flattening in New York City.": "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3563985" https …, superimposed upon zip code-level maps of reported coronavirus incidence, are strongly consistent with subway-facilitated disease …
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Home Quarantine Guidelines : COVID 19 Panorama
Rahaman, Md. Saidur - 2020
At present coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an outbreak, calls for an emergency concern for public health … coronavirus proceeds to advance and continuously evolve to all of the countries in the world. Affected countries are trying to … ensuring early detection. With coronavirus (COVID-19) burning news, are beginning to toss around words “quarantine” with an …
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