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When reality bites : local deaths and vaccine take-up
Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187983
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Did smallpox cause stillbirths? : maternal smallpox infection, vaccination and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839
Schneider, Eric B.; Edvinsson, Sören; Ogasawara, Kota - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013188746
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The failed history of quarantines, and its implications for public health
Sabhlok, Sanjeev; Frijters, Paul; Foster, Gigi; … - 2024
This paper reviews the history of the practice of quarantines, rediscovering the 19th century 'Sanitarian' movement in Britain that sprang from a recognition that quarantines had failed to stop the spread of diseases and were not cost-effective. To our knowledge, the key figure among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580186
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Pollution, infectious disease, and mortality : evidence from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347213
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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination
Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022
, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts, which are difficult to measure. We develop an epidemiological … strongly improved among vaccinated cohorts in states with high pre-vaccine measles mortality. Our results suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275399
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Intergenerational coresidence and the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States
Pensieroso, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro; Spolverini, Gaia - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660718
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Intergenerational coresidence and the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Pensieroso, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro; Spolverini, Gaia - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582166
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What explains cross-city variation in mortality during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? : evidence from 438 U.S. cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2019
uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic … mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of pre-pandemic infant mortality had 21 excess deaths per 10,000 residents in 1918 relative to cities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985935
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A deadly triple threat : three layers of U.S. racial inequity in COVID infections and deaths
Johnson, Daniel K. N.; Altieri, Claire; Blelloch, Siena - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 2, pp. 214-220
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