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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Challenges and Reality of Quarantine, Isolation and Social Distancing for the Returnee Migrants in Bangladesh

Mannan, Dr Kazi Abdul; Farhana, Khandaker Mursheda - 2020

health regulations, including 14 days of quarantine, isolation and maintaining social distance, are severely hampered … chance that the COVID-19 epidemic in Bangladesh will reach a large scale. This huge influx of returnee could spread the … epidemic in Bangladesh at once. The arrival checkpoints in Bangladesh, from where they came to their homes and the type of …

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Birth order, parental health investment, and health in childhood

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schneeweis, Nicole; Schober, Thomas; … - 2019

In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above...

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Covid-19 vaccine efficacy and Russian public support for anti-pandemic measures

Borisova, Ekaterina; Ivanov, Denis S. - 2021

In this study, we use random assignment of vignettes that feature optimistic and pessimistic scenarios with respect to vaccine safety and efficacy on a sample of roughly 1,600 Russians in order to gauge public support for anti-pandemic measures under various scenarios. Negative information on...

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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013

We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...

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Early life access to polio vaccines and declining disability rates in India

Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022

post-period average ATT rose. The eradication of polio saved a significant number of lives and brought measurable health …

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The long-term cognitive and schooling effects of childhood vaccinations in China

Oskorouchi, Hamid R.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Bloom, David E. - 2020

Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and …By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China … treatment on the treated effect of childhood vaccination. Our results confirm that vaccinations before the age of 15 have long …

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Direct and Spillover Effects of Provider Vaccination Facilitation

Cullen, Julie Berry; Humlum, Maria Knoth; Suziedelyte, Agne - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

data on the universe of Danish children and their healthcare providers, we first construct and validate a measure of … then show that the constructed measure of provider vaccination facilitation meaningfully affects uptake of the Human …

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Early Life Access to Polio Vaccines and Declining Disability Rates in India

Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022

post-period average ATT rose. The eradication of polio saved a significant number of lives and brought measurable health …

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Sibling Spillovers and the Choice to Get Vaccinated : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius; Thingholm, Peter - 2022

We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on …

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Analyzing the Morality of Owning and Suspending Patent Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines in the Light of Catholic Social Teaching

Ballano, Vivencio - 2021

Using the Roman Catholic Church’s set of moral principles on social concerns called Catholic social teaching (CST) and utilizing some secondary data and scientific research literature, this article examines the morality of India and South Africa’s request to the World Trade Organization...

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