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Anticipation of COVID-19 Vaccines Reduces Social Distancing
Andersson, Ola; Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando; … - 2021
We show that the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces voluntary social distancing. In a large-scale preregistered survey experiment with a representative sample, we study whether providing information about the safety, effectiveness, and availability of COVID- 19 vaccines affects compliance...
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225440
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227934
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Taming the spread of an epidemic by lockdown policies
Federico, Salvatore; Ferrari, Giorgio - 2020
We study the problem of a policymaker who aims at taming the spread of an epidemic while minimizing its associated … characterized by three distinct periods: the epidemic is first let freely evolve, then vigorously tamed, and finally a less …
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Social distancing and the economic impact of COVID-19 in the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2020
This study documents how the demographics of new infections and mortality changed over time across US counties. We find that counties with a larger population share aged above 60 were hit harder initially in terms of both cases and mortality in March and April while counties with a larger...
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Lockdown 101 : managing economic lockdowns in an epidemic
Ornelas, Emanuel - 2020
while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central …
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Risk-Driven Responses to COVID-19 Eliminate the Tradeoff between Lives and Livelihoods
Rahmandad, Hazhir; Lim, TY - 2021
between (log) death rates and (normalized) contact levels across nations, whether contacts are estimated based on epidemic …
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Home Quarantine Guidelines : COVID 19 Panorama
Rahaman, Md. Saidur - 2020
At present coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an outbreak, calls for an emergency concern for public health … coronavirus proceeds to advance and continuously evolve to all of the countries in the world. Affected countries are trying to … ensuring early detection. With coronavirus (COVID-19) burning news, are beginning to toss around words “quarantine” with an …
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Discrimination Today - The Dangers of Pariah-tizing the Elderly during the COVID Pandemic
Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer - 2022
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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COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking
Smart, Shanike J.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2024
We assess whether the COVID-19 vaccine induces COVID-19 risky behavior (e.g., going to bars and restaurants) and thus reduces vaccine efficacy. A key empirical challenge is the endogeneity bias when comparing risk-taking by vaccination status since people choose whether to get vaccinated. To...
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