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An economic model of the COVID-19 epidemic : the importance of testing and age-specific policies
Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2020
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222362
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Optimal age-based policies for pandemics : an economic analysis of Covid-19 and beyond
Brotherhood, Luiz Mário; Kircher, Philipp; Santos, Cézar - 2023
economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing … underscore the importance of testing, showing its impact on reduced deaths, lower economic costs and laxer lockdown. We use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540526
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251033
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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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Anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines reduces social distancing
Andersson, Ola; Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423758
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Risk compensation after COVID-19 vaccination
Hwang, Jisoo; Hwang, Seung-sik; Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; … - 2023
This paper studies the causal impacts of vaccine eligibility on social distancing behaviors (risk compensation). We apply a regression discontinuity design around the birth date cutoff of vaccine eligibility using large, high-frequency data from credit card and airline companies as well as...
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Can the vaccinations end the Covid-19 pandemic?
Greiner, Alfred; Owusu, Benjamin Darkwa - 2022
In this paper we empirically analyze the effect of the vaccinations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the Covid-19 pandemic for European countries from February 2021 to February 2022 with weekly data. We perform panel fixed effects estimations, GMM estimations and nonlinear penalized spline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939110
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269704
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257770