A Simple Model of Social Distancing and Vaccination
This paper analyzes a simple model of infectious disease where the incentives for individuals to reduce risks through endogenous social distancing take straightforward cost-benefit form.
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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Fréchet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting.
Association Between Social Media Use and Self-reported Symptoms of Depression in US Adults
Importance: Some studies suggest that social media use is associated with risk for depression, particularly among children and young adults. Objective: To characterize the association between self-re
On the Persistence of the China Shock
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019.
The Fourth Generation of Human Rights: Epistemic Rights in Digital Lifeworlds
In contrast to China’s enormous efforts to upgrade its system of governance to a new technological level built around a stupefying amount of data collection and electronic scoring, countries committed
What the Federal Reserve Should Do Now: An Elaboration
The US economy has not fully recovered, and continued shortfalls in employment and gross domestic product (GDP) warrant continued expansionary monetary policy.
Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality: Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives
This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement.
Further Inspection: Integrating Housing Code Enforcement and Social Services to Improve Community Health
As a result of working inside homes, city housing inspectors witness hidden and serious threats to public health. However, systems to respond to the range of problems they encounter are lacking.
Toward constructive disagreement about geoengineering
The divergence of expert opinion about solar geoengineering (SG) may be sharper than in any other area of climate policy.
Strengths and weaknesses of the PJM market model
The core of the iconic PJM market design is a bid-based-security-constrained-economic-dispatch-with-locational-marginal-prices (BBSCEDLMP) model that works in theory and in practice.
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