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Pandemics, Economic Freedom, and Institutional Trade-Offs
Geloso, Vincent; Murtazashvili, Ilia - 2020
We argue that institutions are bundles that involve trade-offs in the government’s ability to provide public goods that affect public health. We hypothesize that economic freedom reduces diseases of poverty and may increase diseases of commerce (those associated with free movement of people,...
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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164530
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The shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170449
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The shadow of the neolithic revolution on life expectancy : a double-edged sword
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022
This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171007
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The Long-Term Consequences of the Global 1918 Influenza Pandemic : A Systematic Analysis of 117 IPUMS International Census Data Sets
Vollmer, Sebastian - 2017
Several country-level studies, including a prominent one for the United States, have identified long-term effects of in-utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic (also known as the Spanish Flu) on economic outcomes in adulthood. In-utero conditions are theoretically linked to adult health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941832
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The long-term consequences of the global 1918 influenza pandemic : a systematic analysis of census data from 51 countries
Wójcik, Juditha; Bommer, Christian; Naeher, Dominik; … - 2022
Several country-level studies have identified long-term adverse effects of in-utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic (also known as the Spanish Flu) on economic outcomes. In-utero conditions are theoretically linked to adult health and socio-economic status through the fetal origins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435379
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What can we learn from historical pandemics? : a systematic review of the literature
Doran, Áine; Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2023
What are the insights from historical pandemics for policymaking today? We carry out a systematic review of the literature on the impact of pandemics that occurred since the Industrial Revolution and prior to Covid-19. Our literature searches were conducted between June 2020 and September 2023,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443840
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The Socio-Economic Determinants of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic
Stojkoski, Viktor - 2020
of the coronavirus disease spread within a population. Consequently, there is an active debate regarding the critical …-economic characteristics, in explaining the outcome of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. We show that the true empirical model behind … the coronavirus outcome is constituted only of few determinants. To understand the relationship between the potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836983
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Understanding Coronanomics : The Economic Implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
Barua, Suborna - 2020
The globalization of COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts is set to run havoc across all economies in the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838105
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Pandemic in the Network Society. the Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Spreading Features in Europe and Latin America
Milovidov, Vladimir - 2020
likelihood of contracting a new coronavirus in European and Latin American countries. The author presents several data sets to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824311