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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood
Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024
evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development … monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county …
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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either negative and close to zero or positive and an order of magnitude larger than the range of estimates derived from the...
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The common interests of health protection and the economy : evidence from scenario calculations of Covid-19 containment policies
Dorn, Florian; Khailaie, Sahamoddin; Stöckli, Marc; … - 2022
We develop a novel approach integrating epidemiological and economic models that allows databased simulations during a pandemic. We examine the economically optimal opening strategy that can be reconciled with the containment of a pandemic. The empirical evidence is based on data from Germany...
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Covid-19 vaccination : the role of crisis experience
Gründler, Klaus; Hackenberger, Armin; Harter, Anina; … - 2021
We propose that crisis experience influences preferences towards COVID-19 vaccination and the speed of vaccination during the initial phase when vaccines became available. We use macro and micro data to empirically investigate our theory and introduce a novel crisis experience index. Evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520623
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An old plug and a new virus : effect of public corruption on the Covid-19 immunization progress
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hofmann, Hans Philipp - 2021
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To reduce the human and economic costs of COVID-19, different vac-cines have been developed and distributed across countries. There has been significant cross-country variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622723
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Globalization and outbreak of COVID-19 : an empirical analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Feizi, Mehdi; Fereidouni, … - 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, and associated deaths in more than 100 countries. Our ordinary least squares multivariate regressions show that countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219663
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The economic impacts of a pandemic : what happened after SARS in 2003?
Nguyen Doan; Nguyen Phuc Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312227
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V for vaccines and variants
Delli Gatti, Domenico; Reissl, Severin; Turco, Enrico - 2021
We employ a new version of the ABC macro-epidemiological agent based model presented in Delli Gatti and Reissl (2020) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the role of a mitigating factor, reducing the frequency and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619411
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(Breaking) intergenerational transmission of mental health
Bütikofer, Aline; Ginja, Rita; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2023
show that a policy targeting additional health resources for the young children of adults diagnosed with mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310036
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The effect of health insurance on child nutritional outcomes : evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Peru
Bernal, Noelia; Costa-Font, Joan; Ritter, Patricia - 2022
, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant … children's regular growth check-ups and deworming treatments, consistent with an increased awareness of children's weight and …
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