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This study investigated the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the health, food security and financial lives of Nigerian households. The data for the study were collected using a questionnaire for 813 households from the six geo-political zones in Nigeria and the results were analysed using...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited interest in trust in public institutions as the efficacy of public health interventions is predicated on trust in the institutions (different levels of government and health authorities). Using a unique micro-level dataset, I assess trust of Canadians in...
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. Pooling results from all three, we do not detect significant benefits from treatment, and our 95% confidence interval bounds …
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I study the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on business confidence in 11 Euro area countries and its consequent impact … on economic activity. To obtain causal effects, I instrument business confidence with domestic household confidence as … well as average household confidence in neighboring countries. I find evidence suggesting that the confidence and …
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I study the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on business confidence in 11 Euro area countries and its consequent impact … on economic activity. To obtain causal effects, I instrument business confidence with domestic household confidence as … well as average household confidence in neighboring countries. I find evidence suggesting that the confidence and …
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In response to growing abuse of prescription opioid painkillers, 50 U.S. states have implemented electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) that record patients into a state-wide registry when a prescription opioid is received. This paper uses a difference-in-differences regression...
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The COVID-19 pandemic represents the largest world-wide shock in at least a decade. Moreover, the spread of the virus has been highly heterogeneous. This paper investigates the role of social capital as a potential mediating factor for the spread of the COVID-19 virus. On one hand, higher social...
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Governments are resorting to incentives to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind them. Using Canada as a case study, this paper discusses how governments have used positive and negative incentives to increase vaccination rates, which is key to minimizing the public health risks and restrictions...
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