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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022

-related benefits that would have accrued if these vaccination requirements had been implemented as intended. Compared with the … vaccination rates observed in January 2022, we find that the mandates could have led to 15 million additional vaccinated … policymakers. In scenarios involving the emergence of a novel, more transmissible variant, against which vaccination and previous …

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Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020

infections continued to grow exponentially, placing the country amongst the ten most affected countries in the world, and on …

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Private information, human capital, and optimal 'home bias' in financial markets

Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011

By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or home bias, from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the bias to...

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Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data

Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

Previous evidence indicates trust is an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does not change over time, and second, that mobility or self-reported measures are good proxies for...

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Gender Bias in the Reelection of Politicians (When a Crisis Strikes)

Hessami, Zohal; Khasanboev, Temurbek - 2024

This paper sheds light on a neglected reason for women's underrepresentation in politics: crisis-induced gender gaps in incumbents' reelection with lasting negative effects on female representation. We use hand-collected data on 173,339 candidates in open-list local council elections (1997-2021)...

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Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration

Briscese, Guglielmo; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; … - 2020

We study how intentions to comply with the self-isolation restrictions enacted in Italy in response to the COVID-19 crisis respond to the length of their possible extension. Based on a survey of a representative sample of Italian residents (N=894), we find that respondents who are positively...

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When to Release the Lockdown? A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Costs and Benefits

Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; … - 2020

It is politicians who have to decide when to release the lockdown, and in what way. In doing so, they have to balance many considerations (as with any decision). Often the different considerations appear incommensurable so that only the roughest of judgements can be made. For example, in the...

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

Bargain, Olivier; Aminjonov, Ulugbek - 2020

the COVID-19 crisis. Policy responses all over the world aim to reduce social interaction and limit contagion. Using data …

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Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust

Brodeur, Abel; Grigoryeva, Idaliya; Kattan, Lamis - 2020

Better understanding whether and how communities respond to government decisions is crucial for policy makers and health officials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we document the socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders' compliance in the U.S. Using cell...

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Bargain, Olivier; Aminjonov, Ulugbek - 2020

In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to …

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