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Audit Rates and Compliance : A Field Experiment in Long-Term Care

Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - 2014

We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market …-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of variations in random audit rates and switching to a conditional audit … care providers differing in size or hospital status. Our preferred explanation for the lack of audit effects is the absence …

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Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence : An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago

Bhatt, Monica P.; Heller, Sara B.; Kapustin, Max; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized controlled trial (N=2,456) of a community-researcher partnership--the Rapid Employment and Development Initiative (READI Chicago)--which provided 18 months of a supported job alongside...

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Humanist algorithms for COVID-19 vaccines' distribution and its impact on business economics in the post-pandemic future

Gil-Aluja, Jaime; Gil-Lafuente, Jaime; Nowak, Martyna - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 27 (2021) 3, pp. 1-9

As the world is fighting against the continuous spread of the COVID-Sars-2 virus and the consequences the pandemic has brought about on economic, political and societal levels, the emergence of the vaccination programs seems to be the biggest hope for a quick return to, popularly called, the...

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Drawing policy suggestions to fight Covid-19 from hardly reliable data. A machine-learning contribution on lockdowns analysis.

Bonacini, Luca; Gallo, Giovanni; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2020

Feedback control-based mitigation strategies for COVID-19 are threatened by the time span occurring before an infection is detected in official data. Such a delay also depends on behavioral, technological and procedural issues other than the incubation period. We provide a machine learning...

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Anand, Paul; Allen, Heidi; Ferrer, Robert; Gold, Natalie; … - 2020

The paper provides new evidence from a survey of 2000 individuals in the US and UK related to predictors of Covid-19 transmission. Specifically, it investigates work and personal predictors of transmission experience reported by respondents using regression models to better understand possible...

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The gender gap in mental well-being during the Covid-19 outbreak: Evidence from the UK

Etheridge, Ben; Spantig, Lisa - 2020

We document a decline in mental well-being after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. This decline is twice as large for women as for men. We seek to explain this gender gap by exploring gender differences in: family and caring responsibilities; financial and work situation; social...

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Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? An empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the world

Cooray, Arusha; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; De … - 2020

How has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending in reducing COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of...

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Life and death during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of cross-country differences in changes in quantity and quality of life

Andersen, Lykke E.; Gonzales Rocabado, Alejandra - 2020

This study carries out a cross-country analysis of changes in quantity and quality of life during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic (11 March to 11 September 2020) for 124 countries. Changes in quantity of life are measured as life years lost to COVID-19, including excess deaths not...

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The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2022

The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...

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The CoViD-19 pandemic and mental health: Disentangling crucial channels

Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021

Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic information and five customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...

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