From the lockdown to the new normal: individual mobility and local labor market characteristics following the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy [0.03%]
从封锁到新常态：意大利新冠肺炎疫情后的个人出行与当地劳动力市场特征
Mauro Caselli,Andrea Fracasso,Sergio Scicchitano
Mauro Caselli
Italy was among the first countries to introduce drastic measures to reduce individual mobility in order to slow the diffusion of COVID-19. The first measures imposed by the central authorities on March 8, 2020, were unanticipated and highl...
The effects of an epidemic on prenatal investments, childhood mortality and health of surviving children [0.03%]
流行病对孕期投资、儿童死亡率和幸存儿童健康的影响
Patricia I Ritter,Ricardo A Sanchez
Patricia I Ritter
The potential death toll from an epidemic is larger than the number of deaths directly associated with the infection. In this study, we find that prenatal exposure to a cholera epidemic in Peru increased childhood mortality and that survivi...
The impact of 2020 French municipal elections on the spread of COVID-19 [0.03%]
2020年法国市政选举对COVID-19传播的影响
Guilhem Cassan,Marc Sangnier
Guilhem Cassan
Soon after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the French government decided to still hold the first round of the 2020 municipal elections as scheduled on March 15. What was the impact of these elections on the spread of COVID-19 in France?...
Reopening schools in a context of low COVID-19 contagion: consequences for teachers, students and their parents [0.03%]
在新冠肺炎低传播背景下重开学校：教师、学生及其家长面临的后果
Anna Godøy,Maja Weemes Grøtting,Rannveig Kaldager Hart
Anna Godøy
Knowing how school reopenings affect the spread of COVID-19 is crucial when balancing children's right to schooling with contagion management. This paper considers the effects on COVID-19 testing prevalence and the positive test rate of reo...
Do high aspirations lead to better outcomes? Evidence from a longitudinal survey of adolescents in Peru [0.03%]
抱负能带来更好的结果吗？来自秘鲁青少年纵向调查的证据
Carol Graham,Julia R Pozuelo
Carol Graham
Using a novel panel survey of relatively poor urban Peruvian adolescents, we explore the link between educational aspirations and propensity to invest in the future. Aspirations comprise hope and agency. We find remarkably high educational ...
Massimiliano Bratti,Corinna Ghirelli,Enkelejda Havari et al.
Massimiliano Bratti et al.
We analyze the effectiveness of a vocational training (VT) programme targeting unemployed youth in Latvia, contributing to the scant literature on active labour market policies in transition countries. The programme we analyse is part of th...
Social Mobility and Political Regimes: Intergenerational Mobility in Hungary, 1949-2017 [0.03%]
社会流动与政治体制：1949-2017年匈牙利的代际流动性研究
Paweł Bukowski,Gregory Clark,Attila Gáspár et al.
Paweł Bukowski et al.
This paper measures social mobility rates in Hungary during the period 1949 to 2017, using surnames to measure social status. In those years, there were two very different social regimes. The first was the Hungarian People's Republic (1949-...
Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic?: Evidence from a natural experiment [0.03%]
选举会加速COVID-19大流行吗？来自自然实验的证据
Ján Palguta,René Levínský,Samuel Škoda
Ján Palguta
Elections define representative democracies but also produce spikes in physical mobility if voters need to travel to polling places. In this paper, we examine whether large-scale, in-person elections propagate the spread of COVID-19. We exp...
The unintended effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders on abortions [0.03%]
新冠疫情和居家令对堕胎的非预期影响
Fernanda Marquez-Padilla,Biani Saavedra
Fernanda Marquez-Padilla
We study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and of government mandated mitigation policies on the number of abortions performed by Mexico City's public abortion program. We find that the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders (SAHO) imp...