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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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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018

diversity, as determined predominantly during the exodus of humans from Africa tens of thousands of years ago, has contributed …

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Borderline Disorder : (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …

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Explaining Governors' Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States

Baccini, Leonardo - 2020

What is the response of US governors to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this research note, we explore the determinants of implementing stay-at-home orders, focusing on governors' characteristics. In our most conservative estimate, being a Democratic governor increases the probability of implementing...

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Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for Covid-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Oikawa, Masato - 2020

to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable method with the Maimonides rule to …

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The Value of Health Insurance During a Crisis : Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality

Clay, Karen - 2020

This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics — the 1957-58 "Asian Flu" pandemic and the 1968-69 "Hong Kong Flu" — that...

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Interventions with Positive Side-Effects : Covid-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Infectious Diseases in Europe

Kaiser, Micha; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2021

To assess the efficacy of Covid-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on infectious disease containment in Europe, we first use weekly 2015-20 data on the spread of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to compare the 2019-20 season of these diseases with the previous five....

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The Impact of Mass Antigen Testing for Covid-19 on the Prevalence of the Disease

Kahanec, Martin; Lafférs, Lukás; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023

More than 100 million people have been infected and 2.5 million people have died of COVID-19 globally as of February 2021. Mass antigen testing could help to mitigate the pandemic and allow the economy to re-open. We investigate the effects of mass antigen testing on the pandemic, using data...

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The Effectiveness of Strategies to Contain Sars-Cov-2 : Testing, Vaccinations, and Npis

Gabler, Janos; Raabe, Tobias; Röhrl, Klara Maria; … - 2022

In order to slow the spread of the CoViD-19 pandemic, governments around the world have enacted a wide set of policies limiting the transmission of the disease. Initially, these focused on non-pharmaceutical interventions; more recently, vaccinations and large-scale rapid testing have started to...

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Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia

Alfano, Marco; Cornelißen, Thomas - 2022

Due to economic interconnectedness across regions, locally confined violent conflict may have welfare effects far … transportation network propagates the effects of violent conflict to distant locations. Combining granular geospatial information on … agricultural areas, roads, and itineraries, we show that conflict along transportation routes significantly increases food prices …

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