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The Benefits of Coronavirus Suppression : A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Response to the First Wave of COVID-19 in the United States
Broughel, James; Kotrous, Michael - 2021
This paper estimates the benefits and costs of state suppression policies to “bend the curve” during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. We employ a value-of-production approach that values benefits and costs in terms of additions or subtractions to total production....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247068
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The Benefits of Coronavirus Suppression : A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Response to the First Wave of COVID-19 in the United States
Broughel, James; Kotrous, Michael - 2021
This paper estimates the benefits and costs of state suppression policies to “bend the curve” during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. Relative to a baseline in which only the infected and at-risk populations mitigate the spread of coronavirus, we estimate that total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247683
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Mortality inequality : the good news from a county-level approach
Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2016
Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy … in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important … that today's children are likely to face considerably less inequality in mortality as they age than current adults. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458800
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The relationship between height and neighborhood context across racial/ethnic groups: A multi-level analysis of the 1999–2004 U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey...
Do, D. Phuong; Watkins, Daphne C.; Hiermeyer, Martin; … - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 1, pp. 30-41
While a growing literature has documented a link between neighborhood context and health outcomes, little is known about the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and height. Using individual data from the 1999-2004 U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey merged with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595102
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Health, wealth and inequality: a contribution to the debate about the relationship between inequality and health
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
We consider a differential game of a conflict between two factions who both have a desire to exact revenge. We show that, in contrast to conventional wisdom, the desire for revenge need not lead to escalation of conflicts. Surprisingly, in the open-loop equilibrium, the weaker faction exerts a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271949
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308598
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312724
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A Decade-Long View of Multidimensional Deprivation in the United States
Dhongde, Shatakshee - 2019
This paper undertakes a comprehensive analysis of temporal trends in multidimensional deprivation in the United States. It provides, for the first time, estimates of multidimensional deprivation in the United States for an entire decade, from 2008 to 2017, which covers the Great Recession and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862647
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A Comparative Analysis of Social Deprivations between Immigrants and Natives in the United States
Reinders, Conway - 2016
This paper analyzes differences in multidimensional poverty between immigrants and natives in the U.S using 2014 microdata from the American Community Survey. Drawing from a normative framework based in the Capability Approach and a methodological measurement in the Alkire-Foster method, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991394
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Monitoring Multidimensional Poverty in the United States
Mitra, Sophie - 2019
On the international stage, poverty is increasingly understood multi-dimensionally as a deprivation of wellbeing in several dimensions rather than solely as a lack of income or low consumption. In the U.S., recent research shows that many people who are not counted as poor under the official or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869179