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This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message relaying the forecast impact of COVID-19 prevention measures affects compliance behaviour amongst both the young and old. A representative sample of survey respondents in the UK and...
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this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …
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this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …
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evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find … the impact of alcohol on short-run mortality, and underscores the severe influence that alcohol has on society - even in …
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We present results on the mortality statistics of the COVID-19 epidemic in a number of countries. Our data analysis … inhabitants, a pattern emerges in which the Western countries exhibit the largest mortality rate. Furthermore, comparing the … a means of tracking the dynamics of outbreaks in the ``first wave'' and estimating the associated ultimate mortality …
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This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low...
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program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …. -- Family health program ; mortality ; household behavior ; impact evaluation ; Brazil …
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We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …, hospitalizations, labor force participation and mortality for Swedes born between 1946 and 1957. Individual level data allow us to … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …
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We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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We show that a higher share of Trump voters (who are less likely to comply with COVID-19 public health guidelines than Democratic voters) in a U.S. county leads to significantly more COVID-19 deaths during times of high regional infection risk. Our model-based counterfactual analysis finds that...
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