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and unequal access will lead to an increase in international inequalities, leaving a large part of the world to have …
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We examine the immediate effects and bounce-back from six modern health crises: 1968 Flu, SARS (2003), H1N1 (2009), MERS (2012), Ebola (2014), and Zika (2016). Time-series models for a large cross-section of countries indicate that real GDP growth falls by around three percentage points in...
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Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …
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restrictions during the recent coronavirus pandemic. We find that more globalised countries experienced a longer delay in …
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