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We quantify the exposure of major financial markets to news shocks about global contagion risk accounting for local epidemic conditions. For a wide cross section of countries, we construct a novel data set comprising (i) announcements related to COVID19, and (ii) high-frequency data on epidemic...
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Epidemics invite “pariah-tization.” By this, I mean the process of stigmatizing one marginalized and impotent segment of society as being the group most vulnerable to the disease at hand- without reliable scientific basis. Doing so allows those in power, the young, the rich, the...
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emigration, and provinces with higher public spending on health. Finally, we estimate economic cost of cold and heat waves using …
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being depressed. In general, this is due to the use of single-country databases. The aim of this paper is to extend previous …
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The aim of the study is to quantify climate induced health risks for Germany. Based on high resolution climate … intensity increases overall but more in the south. Referring to empirical studies on heat induced health effects we estimate an …
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Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health …-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world …. Shortages in health professionals are reaching staggering levels in many parts of the globe. This paper complements existing …
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.This paper examines the implications of this for global health efforts and recommends a tailored middle-income strategy for … global health funders. The paper describes trends in the global distribution of poverty, preventable infectious diseases, and … health aid response to date; revisits the rationale for health aid through agencies like GAVI and the Global Fund; and …
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Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170449