The Impact of State Medicaid Eligibility and Benefits Policy on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Hospitalizations [0.03%]
州医疗补助资格和福利政策对新生儿戒断综合症住院的影响
Aparna Soni,Lindsey Bullinger,Christina Andrews et al.
Aparna Soni et al.
Rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) resulting from opioid misuse are rising. However, policies to treat opioid misuse during pregnancy are unclear. We apply a difference-in-differences design to national pediatric discharge records ...
Sumedha Gupta,Laura Montenovo,Thuy Nguyen et al.
Sumedha Gupta et al.
US workers receive unemployment benefits if they lose their job, but not for reduced working hours. In alignment with the benefits incentives, we find that the labor market responded to COVID-19 and related closure-policies mostly on the ex...
Philip Barrett,Sonali Das,Giacomo Magistretti et al.
Philip Barrett et al.
This paper examines the potential persistent effects (scarring) of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy and the channels through which they may occur. Our findings from a broad set of historical recessions confirm that recessions are associ...
Support for bigger government: The principle-implementation gap and COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的大国体制：原则与实施的鸿沟
Sandra H Goff,John Ifcher,Homa Zarghamee et al.
Sandra H Goff et al.
We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on government and market attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that participants develop significantly less favora...
Do disease epidemics force economic activity underground? International evidence [0.03%]
疾病流行会迫使经济活动转入地下吗？国际证据
Aziz N Berdiev,Rajeev K Goel,James W Saunoris
Aziz N Berdiev
This article studies the impact of disease epidemics on the worldwide prevalence of the shadow or the underground economy. The informal sector has low entry barriers and provides an easy short-term option for the supply of goods and service...
Christopher A Ambrose,Benjamin W Cowan,Robert E Rosenman
Christopher A Ambrose
We investigate whether adult marijuana use in Washington responds to increased local access as measured by drive time to the nearest legal marijuana retailer as well as measures of retail density. Using survey data from the Behavioral Risk ...
The relationship between in-person voting and COVID-19: Evidence from the Wisconsin primary [0.03%]
基于威斯康星州初选的证据分析线下投票与新冠肺炎的关系
Chad Cotti,Bryan Engelhardt,Joshua Foster et al.
Chad Cotti et al.
On April 7, 2020, Wisconsin held its presidential primary election, and news reports showed long lines of voters due to fewer polling locations. We use county-level variation in voting patterns and weekly county-level COVID test data to exa...
CHINA AND WORLD OUTPUT IMPACT OF THE HUBEI LOCKDOWN DURING THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK [0.03%]
Coronavirus疫情期间湖北封城对中国经济和世界经济影响
Shaowen Luo,Kwok Ping Tsang
Shaowen Luo
Using a network approach, we estimate the output loss due to the lockdown of the Hubei province triggered by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Based on our most conservative estimate, China suffers about 4% loss of output from labor loss,...
MOVE MORE, GAIN LESS: EFFECT OF A RECREATIONAL TRAIL SYSTEM ON CHILDHOOD BMI [0.03%]
移得多，长得少——休闲小径对儿童体重指数的影响
Bongkyun Kim,Michael R Thomsen,Rodolfo M Nayga Jr et al.
Bongkyun Kim et al.
We investigate the effect of residential proximity to recreational trails on childhood body mass index (BMI). We find that children living within 0.5 miles of recreational trails have BMI z-scores that are 0.0412 to 0.0507 standard deviatio...
INEQUALITY IN MORTALITY OVER THE LIFE COURSE: WHY THINGS ARE NOT AS BAD AS YOU THINK [0.03%]
人生命周期中的死亡率不平等：事情并没有你想象的那么糟糕
Janet M Currie
Janet M Currie
Recent research shows increasing inequality in mortality among middle-aged and older adults. But this is only part of the story. Inequality in mortality among young people has fallen dramatically in the U.S. converging to almost Canadian ra...