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COVID-19 Lockdown and Neonatal Mortality : Evidence from India

Asker, Erdal; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Shonchoy, Abu - 2023

consequences of lockdown on neonatal mortality in a developing country. Event-study shows neonatal mortality significantly … show neonatal mortality increased to 47 from 30 per 1,000 births during the lockdown. Negative in-utero exposure, forgone …

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The Long-run Effect of Air Pollution on Survival

Deryugina, Tatyana; Reif, Julian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

daily sulfur dioxide levels, we first characterize the short-run mortality effects of acute exposure during the time period … 1972-1988. Exposure causes two distinct mortality patterns: a short-run mortality displacement effect, and a persistent …

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The Impact of the Global COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign on All-Cause Mortality

Agrawal, Virat; Sood, Neeraj; Whaley, Christopher M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

fully vaccinated within the first 8 months. Nevertheless, the impact of this campaign on all-cause mortality is not well …

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The 'Great Lockdown' : Inactive Workers and Mortality by COVID-19

Borri, Nicola - 2020

estimates the causal effect of this measure on mortality by COVID-19 and on mobility patterns. The identification of the causal … economic lockdown is associated to a statistically significant reduction in mortality by COVID-19 and, in particular, for age … 1.32 percentage points reduction in mortality by COVID-19. We also find that the economic lockdown, as expected, led to …

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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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Exploring the Relationship between Care Homes and Excess Deaths in the Covid-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Italy

Alacevich, Caterina - 2020

COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March 31st, 2015-2020) for Lombardy, one of …

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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020

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Pandemic Death Traps

Goel, Anand M. - 2020

Faced with a pandemic, how does the government decide whether to shut down the economy or employ less economically-damaging mitigation measures, and what are the second-best distortions in this decision? We address this question from a positive (how does) rather than a normative (how should)...

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The common interests of health protection and the economy : evidence from scenario calculations of COVID-19 containment policies

Dorn, Florian; Khaiaie, Sahamoddin; Stoeckli, Marc; … - 2022

We develop a novel approach integrating epidemiological and economic models that allows databased simulations during a pandemic. We examine the economically optimal opening strategy that can be reconciled with the containment of a pandemic. The empirical evidence is based on data from Germany...

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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality : Reply to Cutler and Miller

Anderson, D. Mark - 2019

Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the … determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of their data: (1 …) correcting infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration on infant mortality by two-thirds, from -43 log …

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