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Social Disparities and Social Distancing During the Covid Pandemic
According to Putnam (2000) and Bourdieu (1986), social disparities may result in the formation of narrow social bonds that exacerbate existing social...
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Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic
We study how pre-pandemic inequalities in the United States influenced social distancing over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Richer counties...
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Is social capital associated with individual social responsibility? The case of social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic
Individual social responsibility is essential to achieving the sustainable development goals of the society, yet there has been very little research...
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Social Distancing
Pestilence is not a new feature of urban life, and neither are the public health practices devised to prevent large segments of the population from...
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Social Distancing, Vaccination and Evolution of COVID-19 Transmission Rates in Europe
This paper provides estimates of COVID-19 transmission rates and explains their evolution for selected European countries since the start of the...
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Ambiguity and self-protection: evidence from social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper studies how people make decisions over preventive behaviors under ambiguity (i.e., Knightian uncertainty) where they do not even know the...
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Physical distancing as an integral component of pandemic response
It is well established that a variety of physical distancing measures are invaluable as part of the overall response to pandemics. COVID-19 is the...
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A modeling study of the effect of social distancing policies on the early spread of coronavirus disease 2019: a case of South Korea
The social distancing policy is an effective way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in the initial phase of their outbreak when medical...
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Social Distancing
Pestilence is not a new feature of urban life, and neither are the public health practices devised to prevent large segments of the population from...
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Covid and social distancing with a heterogenous population
Motivated by the Covid-19 epidemic, we build a SIR model with private decisions on social distancing and population heterogeneity in terms of...
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Covid-19 and the Golden Rule of Social Distancing
We derive a golden rule of social distancing when new variants of a pandemic continuously enter a country requiring permanent social distancing. The...
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The economic cost of social distancing during a pandemic: an optimal control approach in the SVIR model
We devise a theoretical model for the optimal dynamical control of an infectious disease whose diffusion is described by the SVIR compartmental...
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Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?
Using data from O ∗ NET, we construct two measures of an occupation’s potential exposure to social distancing measures: (i) the ability to conduct that...
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The effect of social distancing on the reach of an epidemic in social networks
How does social distancing affect the reach of an epidemic in social networks? We present Monte Carlo simulation results of a susceptible–infected–remo...
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Coronagraben in Switzerland: culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19
Social distancing measures help contain the spread of COVID-19, but actual compliance has varied substantially across space and time. We ask whether...
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Does social capital enforce social distancing? The role of bridging and bonding social capital in the evolution of the pandemic
By sha** the way people look at members of their networks as well as strangers, social capital affects the behavior of a population during a...
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The Drivers of Compliance with Social-Distancing Measures at the Time of Covid-19
This chapter provides a selective review of the economics literature on the drivers of compliance with COVID-19 social-distancing measures. The...
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Political orientation and adherence to social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
Many governments have implemented social distancing and lockdown measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Using...
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The distributional consequences of social distancing on poverty and labour income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
This paper estimates the potential distributional consequences of the first phase of the COVID-19 lockdowns on poverty and labour income inequality...
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Stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and trust
A clear understanding of community response to government decisions is crucial for policy makers and health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic....
