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COVID-19 and the formation of energy conservation routines : disentangling the relative importance of attention and income shocks

Löschel, Andreas; Price, Michael Keith; Razzolini, Laura; … - 2022

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formation of energy conservation routines. To do so, we use data from two nationwide surveys of German households, conducted before and during the pandemic. Across the two survey waves, we document a significant increase in the likelihood...

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Do behavioral drivers matter for healthcare decision-making in times of Crisis? : a study of low-income women in El Salvador during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bernal, Pedro; Daga, Giuliana; Kossuth, Lajos; López … - 2023

Understanding health-seeking behaviors and their drivers is key for governments to manage health policies. There is a growing literature on the role of cognitive biases and heuristics in health and care-seeking behaviors, but little is known of how they might be influenced during a context of...

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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses

Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020

framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other structural and policy-related features, shapes the trade-off between … inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries. Such a cumulative process shapes …

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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Health and Well-being of Vulnerable People in Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022

Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the emerging literatures in public health and economics on the...

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Evaluating the Role of Insurance in Managing Risk of Future Pandemics

Kunreuther, Howard; Schupp, Jason - 2021

defining a meaningful role for insurance in managing business interruption (BI) and other risks from future pandemics. The … insurance industry will be part of that solution set, whether through the continued development of ad hoc state …-by-state initiatives, a private-public partnership in which the insurance industry commits its servicing capabilities, or a private …

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marriage and childbirth : survey-based evidence from Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

With a representative survey of 1,214 participants conducted in early 2022, this study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marriage and childbirth in Iran. The results of the empirical investigation using logistic regressions suggest that the experience of unemployment due to the...

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