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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19 : Insights from European Countries

Bartscher, Alina K. - 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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Does Policy Communication During Covid-19 Work?

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...

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Lockdown Accounting

Gottlieb, Charles - 2020

We measure the effect of lockdown policies on employment and GDP across countries using individual- and sector …, and individual characteristics across countries. GDP effects of lockdown policies also depend on countries' sectoral …. Overall, a realistic lockdown policy implies GDP losses of 20-25% on an annualized basis …

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Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy

Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This …

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Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic : Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?

Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy …

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Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of Covid-19

Bargain, Olivier - 2020

of lockdown announcements, we find that high-trust regions decrease their mobility related to non-necessary activities …

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Health System Trust and Compliance with Covid-19 Restrictions

Costa-i-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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Public Health Policy at Scale : Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark

Altındaǧ, Onur; Greve, Jane; Tekin, Erdal - 2022

We evaluate the impact of a nationwide public health intervention on deaths from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), using population data from Denmark in a regression discontinuity research design. The information campaign implemented primarily through a universal nurse home visiting program...

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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality

Anderson, D. Mark - 2018

Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...

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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2012

It is often argued that engaging in indoor residual spraying (IRS) in areas with high coverage of mosquito bed nets may discourage net ownership and use. This is just a case of a public program inducing perverse incentives. We analyze new data from a randomized control trial conducted in Eritrea...

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