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COVID-19 employment status impacts on food sector workers
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243392
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COVID-19 employment status impacts on food sector workers
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233370
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The causes and consequences of the 1918 influenza in South Africa
De Kadt, Daniel; Fourie, Johan; Greyling, Jan; Murard, Elie - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388241
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On the optimal "lockdown" during an epidemic
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We embed a lockdown choice in a simplified epidemiological model and derive formulas for the optimal lockdown intensity and duration. The optimal policy reflects the rate of time preference, epidemiological factors, the hazard rate of vaccine discovery, learning effects in the health care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206448
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Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint
Miclo, Laurent; Spiro, Daniel; Weibull, Jörgen W. - 2020
during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU resources are constrained while suppression is costly (e.g., limiting … suppression measures are continuously taken to hold down the spread throughout the epidemic, is suboptimal. Instead, the optimal … suppression is discountinuous. The epidemic should be left unregulated in a first phase and when the ICU constraint is approaching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219144
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The impact of Covid-19 on community college enrollment and student success : evidence from California administrative data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022
Although enrollment at California’s four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the...
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Weather, mobility and the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic
Ghirelli, Corinna; González, Andrea; Herrera, José Luis; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489429
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Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: evidence from three centuries
Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020
Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...
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The economic impacts of a pandemic : what happened after SARS in 2003?
Nguyen Doan; Nguyen Phuc Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312227
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Should contact bans be lifted in Germany? : a quantitative prediction of its effects
Donsimoni, Jean Roch; Glawion, René; Plachter, Bodo; … - 2020
Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of COVID19 if RSC were upheld after April 20. We employ these findings and feed them into our...
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