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Timing is Everything When Fighting a Pandemic : Covid-19 Mortality in Spain

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2020

In an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe adopted social distancing measures. Previous studies have relied on the geographical and temporal variation in the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs...

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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Financial Health and Food Security : a Survey-Based Analysis

Akinleye, Oludiran - 2020

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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Globalization and Outbreak of COVID-19 : An Empirical Analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2020

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by …

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The politicized pandemic : ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19

Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022

We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...

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Improving women's mental health during a pandemic

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Caro, Luis Pinedo - 2021

In low-income settings, women are vulnerable to the psychological distress caused by the social and economic impact of large-scale shocks (e.g., pandemics, natural disasters, political). This paper evaluates a randomized over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental...

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COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine uptake

Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2021

We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60%...

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Care or Constraints? A New Look at the Welfare of SNAP and WIC Recipients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Khurana, Indu; Carson, Byron - 2021

The on-going debate regarding in-kind versus cash transfers to low-income people focuses on normal settings, devoid of the additional constraints imposed during a crisis. We analyze the effect of welfare regulations on SNAP and WIC recipients in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and related herd...

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Act early to prevent infections and save lives : causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the Covid-19 pandemic

Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Bloom, David E. - 2021

This paper examines the impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an exogenous policy on diagnostic confirmation, we show that a one- day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and...

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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022

We evaluate the impact of government-mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60%...

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Timing matters : the impact of response measures on COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates in Germany and Switzerland

Huber, Martin; Langen, Henrika - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/10, pp. 1-19

-related hospitalization and death rates. Our analysis exploits the fact that the epidemic was more advanced in some regions …-specific start of the epidemic and comparing outcomes across regions with earlier and later start dates. When estimating the effect … of the relative timing of measures, we control for regional characteristics and initial epidemic trends by linear …

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