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Blowin' in the Wind of an Invisible Killer: Long-Term Exposure to Ozone and Respiratory Mortality in the United States

Liu, Ziheng; Chen, Xi; Lu, Qinan - 2023

In light of the low public awareness of ozone pollution and the potential health threats posed by long-term ozone exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality. By employing an instrumental variable based on the long-distance transmission...

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Spillover Effects of Energy Transition Metals in Chile

Agnese, Pablo; Rios, Francisco - 2023

This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...

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A Lost Generation? Impact of COVID-19 on High School Students' Achievements

Contini, Dalit; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Muratori, Caterina - 2023

This paper estimates the effect of a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic on school performance, focusing on students at …-in-differences models to analyse the performance of two cohorts of students in Italy: a cohort that has never been exposed to the pandemic … and a cohort that graduated in 2021. We find that the pandemic had a huge negative impact on students' performance in …

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From Syringes to Dishes: Improving Food Security through Vaccination

Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Tekin, Erdal; You, Shijun - 2023

This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the Household Pulse Survey. Our primary research design exploits variation in vaccine eligibility across states over time as an instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of...

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Working from Home, COVID-19 and Job Satisfaction

Laß, Inga; Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Wooden, Mark - 2023

This paper examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models...

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Risk Compensation after COVID-19 Vaccination

Hwang, Jisoo; Hwang, Seung-sik; Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; … - 2023

This paper studies the causal impacts of vaccine eligibility on social distancing behaviors (risk compensation). We apply a regression discontinuity design around the birth date cutoff of vaccine eligibility using large, high-frequency data from credit card and airline companies as well as...

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The Pandemic Push: Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustments

Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023

Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...

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School Closures and Student Achievement: Evidence from a High Stakes Exam

Riudavets-Barcons, Marc; Uusitalo, Roope - 2023

periods across schools between autumn 2020 and spring 2021. Using a difference-in-difference design, we show that the students …-secondary education than the students who experienced shorter school closures. Moreover, we show that inequalities across Finnish students …

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Permanent Instability of Preferences after COVID-19 Crisis: A Natural Experiment from Urban Burkina Faso

Boutin, Delphine; Petifour, Laurene; Megzari, Haris - 2023

The salience of the first Covid-19 crisis over a well-identified period makes it an unexpected and abrupt change in the environment. This study uses the onset of the Covid-19 crisis to empirically examine whether risk and time preferences change in response to this exogenous shock, and whether...

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Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Lepinteur, Anthony; Borga, Liyousew G.; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2023

We here investigate the role of risk aversion in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. The theoretical effect is ambiguous, as both COVID-19 infection and vaccination side-effects involve probabilistic elements. In large-scale data covering five European countries, we find that vaccine hesitancy falls...

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