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When externalities collide: influenza and pollution

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Neidell, Matthew; Sanders, … - 2021

Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The common pathways through which each harms health presents an interesting case of compounding risk via interacting externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind...

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Masks and trolleys in San Francisco during the 1918 influenza epidemic

Velde, François R. - In: AEA papers and proceedings 112 (2022), pp. 205-208

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Macroeconomics of the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920

Barro, Robert J.; Ursúa, José F.; Weng, Joanna - In: Research in economics : an international review of economics 76 (2022) 1, pp. 21-29

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Did the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic kill the U.S. Life Insurance Industry?

Cortes, Gustavo; Verdickt, Gertjan - 2021

No. We document two empirical facts for the U.S. life insurance sector during the 1918–19 Influenza pandemic. First, we find no significant differences among U.S. insurers’ profitability after 1918. Second, there were fewer insurers in distress after the pandemic outbreak. Using synthetic...

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When externalities collide : influenza and pollution

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Neidell, Matthew; Sanders, … - 2021

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Pandemics and regional economic growth : evidence from the Great Influenza in Italy

Carillo, Mario F.; Jappelli, Tullio - In: European review of economic history : EREH 26 (2022) 1, pp. 78-106

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An SEIR Infectious Disease Model with Testing and Conditional Quarantine

Berger, David W. - 2020

understand the role of testing and case-dependent quarantine. Our model nests the SEIR model. During a period of asymptomatic … infection, testing can reveal infection that otherwise would only be revealed later when symptoms develop. Along with those … on whether a case is unknown, known positive, known negative, or recovered. Testing therefore makes possible the …

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Do Global Pandemics Matter for Stock Prices? : Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu

Angel, Marco del; Fohlin, Caroline; Weidenmier, Marc D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the impact of the 1918 Spanish Flu on U.S. stock prices. We use the death rate to control for the impact of the global pandemic and war news reported in the New York Times to capture the positive effects of the end of World War I on stock prices. Using a new weekly hand collected NYSE...

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An SEIR infectious disease model with testing and conditional quarantine

Berger, David; Herkenhoff, Kyle; Mongey, Simon - 2020

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The effect of the 1918 influenza pandemic on income inequality : evidence from Italy

Galletta, Sergio; Giommoni, Tommaso - In: Covid economics : vetted and real-time papers (2020) 33, pp. 73-109

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