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Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic : Post-Lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities

Liu, Yanyan; Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2021

How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility...

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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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Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020

Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...

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Revenge of the Experts : Will Covid-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?

Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Saka, Orkun - 2021

individuals with little previous training in science subjects. Finally, our evidence suggests that epidemic-induced distrust …

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Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake : New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic : Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups

Aubert, Cecile; Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …

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The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital : Some Projections

Drozd, Mark; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - 2023

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic's Evolving Impacts on the Labor Market : Who's Been Hurt and What We Should Do

Hershbein, Brad; Holzer, Harry J. - 2021

In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved over most of the year 2020. Relying primarily on microdata from the CPS and state-level data on virus caseloads, mortality, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of...

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Lives and Livelihoods : Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Decerf, Benoit - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...

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Does the Covid-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on its Unintended Consequences

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on air quality. We offer the first study that provides cross-national evidence on the causal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution. We assemble a rich database consisting of daily,...

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