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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022

We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non … vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial … mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and …

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Do the Obese Really Die Younger or Do Health Expenditures Buy Them Extra Years?

Frijters, Paul - 2010

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been argued that the obese die younger, the data that have become available do not immediately support this. This potentially undermines the hypothesis that modern life with its physical...

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How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2015

We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals using quasi-experimental data for Denmark which switched from external (where reimbursements are based on prices of similar products in foreign countries) to internal reference...

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The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2013

Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...

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Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls

Mello, Marco; Moscelli, Giuseppe - 2022

We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of voters' turnout on the spread of new COVID-19 infections and to quantify the policy trade-off implied by postponing elections during high infection periods. We show that post-poll...

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Face Masks Considerably Reduce Covid-19 Cases in Germany : A Synthetic Control Method Approach

Mitze, Timo - 2020

We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread of Covid-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits regional variation in the point in time when face masks became compulsory. Depending on the region we analyse, we find that face masks reduced the...

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The Interaction between Personality and Health Policy : Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans

Josten, Cecily - 2020

We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we exploit variation in the timing and location of these bans to establish their overall effect on smoking outcomes,...

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Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and Covid-19

Askitas, Nikos - 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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Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in China

Qiu, Yun - 2020

This paper models the local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in China between January 19 and February 29 in 2020. We examine the role of various socioeconomic mediating factors, including public health measures that encourage social distancing in local communities. Weather...

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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases : Evidence from High Frequency Data

Adda, Jerome - 2015

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...

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