Learning from deregulation: The asymmetric impact of lockdown and reopening on risky behavior during COVID-19
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, states issued and then rescinded stay-at-home orders that restricted mobility.
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The Virus, Vaccination, and Voting
Across US counties, vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate, as of August 12, 2021.
Innovative Healthcare Delivery: The Scientific and Regulatory Challenges in Designing mHealth Interventions
Scientists looking for innovative ways to deliver healthcare have long searched for mechanisms that can enable the right intervention to be delivered at the right time.
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts.
The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Employment rates fell dramatically between March and April 2020 as the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic reverberated through the U.S. labor market.
Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa
Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises resulting from each hazard is poorly characterized.
Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with dementia
Background/Objectives No data exist regarding the validity of International Classification of Disease (ICD)-10 dementia diagnoses against a clinician-adjudicated reference standard within Medicare cla
Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Postwar Italy
Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear.
Hatred against Roma in times of pandemic
This chapter discusses the historically entrenched practice of minority scapegoating during epidemics, exemplified by the return of anti-Roma racism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices
We provide a new method to analyze discrete choice models with state dependence and individual-by-product fixed effects, and use it to analyze consumer choices in a policy-relevant environment (a subs
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