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The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When available, instruments may also be used to test for the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the...
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We investigate whether the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) can explain UK inflation in the 1970s. We confront the identification problem involved by setting up the FTPL as a structural model for the episode and pitting it against an alternative Orthodox model; the models have a reduced...
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disease and the availability of tests to detect asymptomatic spreaders is limited. Contact tracing is a testing strategy that … lockdown corrects this externality, allowing policymakers to buy time to expand the testing scale so as to preserve the testing … system. If the testing capacity is sufficiently large, contact tracing alone can halt the spread of the virus because it …
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of COVID-19 infections is revealed. A significant positive correlation between infections and testing is shown by the …
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hygiene, use of masks in indoor public spaces, as well as contact tracing. Also, population-scale testing could play an …
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This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR … cold. Testing reduces the time of uncertainty. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to age. Younger people are less … policy responses in terms of testing, confinements, and selective mixing by age group. …
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