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Molina, Renato; Rudik, Ivan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

What is the impact and value of hurricane forecasts? We study this question using newly-collected forecast data for major US hurricanes since 2005. We find higher wind speed forecasts increase pre-landfall protective spending, but erroneous under-forecasts increase post-landfall damage and...

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Impacts of household vulnerability on hurricane logistics evacuation under COVID-19 : the case of U.S. Hampton Roads

Diaz, Rafael; Acero, Beatriz; Behr, Joshua G.; Hutton, … - In: Transportation research / E : an international journal 176 (2023), pp. 1-20

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Chapter 4 Lessons from Co-Occurring Disasters: COVID-19 and Eight Hurricanes

Jerolleman, Alessandra; Laska, Shirley; Torres, Julie - In: Justice, equity and emergency management, (pp. 59-87). 2022

errors regarding surge heights and wind speed, and (5) a storm, Zeta, that passed directly over a densely populated area that … would have been hard hit by rain if the storm had slowed. In addition, the number and closeness in dates of storm … responses to them and the provision of special services, calculated for the new situation of the pandemic and the storm epidemic …

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The economic and social impact of hurricane Dorian and COVID-19 on tourism in selected islands in The Bahamas

Bethell-Bennett, Ian; Rolle, Sophia A.; Minnis, Jessica; … - In: Pandemics, disasters, sustainability, tourism : an …, (pp. 49-67). 2022

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care in OECD countries

Fujisawa, Rie - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted primary and secondary prevention efforts as well as routine cancer care including diagnosis and treatment. The number of cancer-related procedures declined across countries. Many of the OECD countries also faced challenges in maintaining and further improving...

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Advancing patient safety governance in the COVID-19 response

de Bienassis, Katherine - 2023

In the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring the safety of health care services remains a serious, ongoing challenge. This once-in-a-century global health crisis exposed the vulnerability of healthcare delivery systems and the subsequent risks of patient harm. Given the scale of the...

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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?

D'Souza, Arielle; Hoyt, Kendall; Snyder, Christopher M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...

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The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Cornell, Paul; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across...

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Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients

Daysal, N. Meltem; Evans, William N.; Pedersen, Mikkel Hasse - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate the effects of radiation therapy on the mortality and economic outcomes of breast cancer patients. We implement a 2SLS strategy within a difference-in-difference framework exploiting variation in treatment stemming from a medical guideline change in Denmark. Using administrative...

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Estimating the economic impact of natural hazards on shared accommodation in coastal tourism destinations

Chen, Yin-Hsuen; Kim, Jinwon; Mueller, Noah - In: Journal of destination marketing & management 21 (2021), pp. 1-10

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