Socio-economic and environmental factors in the global spread of COVID-19 outbreak [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情下全球经济、社会和环境因素分析与发展政策选择
Tibi Didier Zoungrana,Antoine Yerbanga,Youmanli Ouoba
Tibi Didier Zoungrana
COVID-19 is a virus with a very fast spread rate in the world. Therefore, knowledge of factors that may explain such spread is paramount. The main objective of this research was to analyze the determinants of the virus spread worldwide. Unl...
Economic resilience in times of public health shock: The case of the US states [0.03%]
美国各州公共卫生突发事件时期的经济韧性
Syed Muhammad Ishraque Osman,Faridul Islam,Nazmus Sakib
Syed Muhammad Ishraque Osman
Does adopting social distancing policies amid a health crisis, e.g., COVID-19, hurt economies? Using a machine learning approach at the intermediate stage, we applied a generalized synthetic control method to answer this question. We utiliz...
COVID-19 lockdown, family migration and unemployment in a gendered society [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情、性别与家庭迁移及失业问题
Sushobhan Mahata,Rohan Kanti Khan,Sarbajit Chaudhuri et al.
Sushobhan Mahata et al.
COVID-19 has posed severe challenges not only to researchers in the field of medicines and natural sciences but also to policymakers. Almost all nations of the world lockdown have been chosen as an immediate response to this pandemic crisis...
Vikkram Singh,Homayoun Shirazi,Jessica Turetken
Vikkram Singh
The study explores the effect of COVID-19 on labour market outcomes for women in the major urban areas in Canada. Using data from the Labour Force Statistics, we find the pandemic has had a disproportionately negative impact on the employme...
Public sector efficiency in the design of a COVID fund for the euro area [0.03%]
欧元区新冠疫情基金的设计效率问题分析报告
Oluwanbepelumi Esther Olanubi,Sijuola Orioye Olanubi
Oluwanbepelumi Esther Olanubi
This study examines the importance of incorporating public sector efficiency considerations in the design of a "COVID Fund" in the euro area, aimed at providing insurance for member states against common health shocks. To test our propositi...
Beatrice Braut,Matteo Migheli,Elisa Truant
Beatrice Braut
The lockdown imposed to limit the diffusion of COVID-19 in Italy affected the economic situation negatively. The income of many households decreased, and people were forced to stay home. Both these factors influenced food consumption: on th...
Non-pharmaceutical interventions and mortality in U.S. cities during the great influenza pandemic, 1918-1919 [0.03%]
1918—1919年美国城市的西班牙流感大流行及其死亡率和非药物干预措施之间的关系
Robert J Barro
Robert J Barro
A key issue for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is whether non-pharmaceutical public-health interventions (NPIs) retard death rates. Good information about causal effects from NPIs comes from flu-related excess deaths in large U.S. cities dur...
Robert J Barro,José F Ursúa
Robert J Barro
Data for 48 countries during the Great Influenza Pandemic imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2.1 percent of world population, implying 160 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual informat...
James J Heckman,Pietro Biroli,Daniela Del Boca et al.
James J Heckman et al.
We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipal...