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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
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Economic crises and mortality among the elderly: evidence from two Russian crises
Khvan, Margarita; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta; Jakovlev, Evgenij - 2020
, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise. …
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Economic Crises and Mortality Among the Elderly : Evidence from Two Russian Crises
Khvan, Margarita - 2020
, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826758
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Economic Crises and Mortality Among the Elderly. Evidence from Two Russian Crises
Khvan, Margarita - 2020
, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827309
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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality : Reply to Cutler and Miller
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2019
the Decline in Urban Mortality” (NBER WP No. 25027), in which we examine the effect of water filtration on infant and … total mortality using the same data as were used by CM (2005). Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of the CM data …: (1) correcting their infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration by two-thirds, from -43 log …
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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation
Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …
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COVID-19 mortality and economic losses : the role of policies and structural conditions
Wang, Weichen; Gurgone, Andrea; Martinez, Humberto; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 8, pp. 1-28
excess mortality and GDP growth adjusted for additional fiscal stimulus. We conduct an empirical analysis in two stages … public testing and additional fiscal stimulus in non-health could help reduce excess mortality, which might lead to lower …
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Care or cash? The effect of child care subsidies on student performance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - 2012
Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
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Testing a conditional cash transfer program in the US : the effects of the family rewards program in New York City
Miller, Cynthia K.; Riccio, James A.; Verma, Nandita; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29
incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …
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Income elasticity of child labor : do cash transfers have an impact on the poorest children?
Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-21
below which an increase in income has no impact on child labor and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labor and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labor and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …
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