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Health system trust and compliance with COVID-19 restrictions
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2023
We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with pandemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from two representative...
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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic: comparing alternative value frameworks
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Bloom, David E. - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries to make difficult ethical choices, e.g., how to balance public health and socioeconomic activity and whom to prioritize in allocating vaccines or other scarce medical resources. We discuss the implications of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and...
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A structural model of coronavirus behaviour : what do four waves of Covid tell us?
Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 37, pp. 4348-4358
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Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19 : meta-analysis & public policy implications
Levin, Andrew T.; Cochran, Kensington B.; Walsh, Seamus P. - 2020
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Social capital and the spread of COVID-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …
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Failing to pull together: South Africa's troubled response to COVID-19
Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020
When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
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COVID-19 relief programs and compliance with confinement measures
Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; Mazzarella, Gianluca; … - 2021
We study the impact of a COVID-19 relief program on compliance with confinement measures in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. We match information on the allocation of funds across Italian municipalities with data tracking citizens' movements drawn from mobile devices and vehicles'...
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A structural model of coronavirus behaviour for testing on data behaviour
Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 30, pp. 3515-3534
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Health versus wealth : on the distributional effects of controlling a pandemic
Glover, Andrew; Heathcote, Jonathan; Krueger, Dirk; … - 2020
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