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What are the insights from historical pandemics for policymaking today? We carry out a systematic review of the literature on the impact of pandemics that occurred since the Industrial Revolution and prior to Covid-19. Our literature searches were conducted between June 2020 and September 2023,...
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worse treatment of higher birth order children, particularly girls. Analyzing new data, we find: (1) Parameter estimates are … sensitive to sampling design and model specification; (2) The gap between the heights of pre-school African and Indian children …, pre-school Indian children would be taller than pre-school African children; and (5) Once we account for survey design …
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Government effectiveness has played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This paper discusses the different aspects of government effectiveness in explaining the variation in the COVID-19 confirmed cases and death levels in Viet Nam. We use the...
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We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, what has stood out in simple global snapshots is that wealthier countries with stronger institutions have had the highest numbers of cases and...
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examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the …
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children who were in the womb during the bombing. We investigate the in utero effect in terms of short-term outcomes, such as … score matching. We compare the birthweight of children born in the same year (1999) and in the months just before and after … the bombing, and children born in the same months of the previous year (1998). We then exploit the data on educational …
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This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …
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effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child …
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We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing the economic burden of infectious diseases. Second, we...
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The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply because states such as New York or California benefited...
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