The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean [0.03%]
论拉丁美洲及加勒比地区社会疏离政策对贫困和劳动收入不平等的影响分布问题
Isaure Delaporte,Julia Escobar,Werner Peña
Isaure Delaporte
This paper estimates the potential distributional consequences of the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns on poverty and labour income inequality in 20 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We estimate the share of individuals tha...
The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the demand for health care and on mortality: evidence from COVID-19 in Scandinavia [0.03%]
非药物干预措施对医疗卫生需求和死亡率的影响——来自北欧国家的新冠肺炎疫情证据
Steffen Juranek,Floris T Zoutman
Steffen Juranek
We study the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) against COVID-19 on the allocation of scarce resources in the hospital sector in Scandinavia. Denmark and Norway imposed strict NPIs, but Sweden followed an extraordinari...
Coronagraben in Switzerland: culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19 [0.03%]
瑞士冠状缺口：COVID-19时期的文化和社交距离政策
Neha Deopa,Piergiuseppe Fortunato
Neha Deopa
Social distancing measures help contain the spread of COVID-19, but actual compliance has varied substantially across space and time. We ask whether cultural differences underlie this heterogeneity using mobility data across Switzerland bet...
Pierre Pestieau,Gregory Ponthiere
Pierre Pestieau
This paper examines the robustness of the optimal lockdown strategy to the postulated social welfare criterion. We show that utilitarianism can, under some conditions, imply a COVID-19 variant of Parfit's (1984) Repugnant Conclusion: for an...
The impact of repeated mass antigen testing for COVID-19 on the prevalence of the disease [0.03%]
反复进行群体抗原检测对新冠肺炎流行率的影响
Martin Kahanec,Lukáš Lafférs,Bernhard Schmidpeter
Martin Kahanec
In the absence of effective vaccination, mass testing and quarantining of positive cases and their contacts could help to mitigate pandemics and allow economies to stay open. We investigate the effects of repeated mass testing on the COVID-...
Abel Brodeur,Idaliya Grigoryeva,Lamis Kattan
Abel Brodeur
A clear understanding of community response to government decisions is crucial for policy makers and health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we document the determinants of implementation and compliance with stay-at-ho...
Augusto Cerqua,Roberta Di Stefano,Marco Letta et al.
Augusto Cerqua et al.
Estimates of the real death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic have proven to be problematic in many countries, Italy being no exception. Mortality estimates at the local level are even more uncertain as they require stringent conditions, such a...
Daniel Graeber,Alexander S Kritikos,Johannes Seebauer
Daniel Graeber
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic and the government-mandated measures to contain its spread affect the self-employed - particularly women - in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey da...
Eiji Yamamura,Yoshiro Tsustsui
Eiji Yamamura
The spread of the novel coronavirus disease caused schools in Japan to close to cope with the pandemic. In response to the school closures, parents of students were obliged to care for their children during the daytime, when children usuall...
Missing Time with Parents: Son Preference among Asians in the United States [0.03%]
美国亚裔的重男轻女观念：缺少与父母相处的时间
Neeraj Kaushal,Felix M Muchomba
Neeraj Kaushal
We study prevalence of son preference in families of East and South Asian origin living in the U.S. by investigating parental time investments in children using American Time Use Surveys. Estimates show that East and South Asian mothers spe...