1.
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 26 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 13 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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70,410
2.
Economic Effects of Coronavirus Outbreak (COVID-19) on the World Economy
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 23 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 13 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Navarra, IESE Business School
Downloads
22,389
3.
Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 11 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 21 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business
Downloads
10,787
4.
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Yale Law School, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 237
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 22 May 2000
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center
There are 2 versions of this paper
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Yale Law School, Law & Economics Working Paper No. 237
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 22 May 2000
Downloads
10,298
Safe Storage Gun Laws: Accidental Deaths, Suicides, and Crime
Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 44, No. 2, Part 2
Posted: 06 May 2002
Downloads
10,298
5.
Three Quant Lessons from COVID-19 (Presentation Slides)
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 08 May 2020
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Downloads
8,993
6.
Does Social Distancing Matter?
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-26
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 27 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of Chicago
Downloads
8,628
7.
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 16 May 2001
Working Paper Series
Crime Prevention Research Center and Crime Prevention Research Center
There are 2 versions of this paper
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 254
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 16 May 2001
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7,955
Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 304-324, April 2007
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 09 Mar 2007
Downloads
18
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7,955
8.
The Coronavirus Epidemic Curve is Already Flattening in New York City
Forthcoming, National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper Series Electronic
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 30 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Coronavirus Epidemic Curve is Already Flattening in New York City
Forthcoming, National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper Series Electronic
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 30 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2020
Downloads
7,730
The Coronavirus Epidemic Curve is Already Flattening in New York City
NBER Working Paper No. w26917
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 06 Apr 2020
Downloads
9
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7,730
9.
Grocery Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness
U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-2
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 04 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 28 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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5,912
10.
Death by Pokémon GO: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 21 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 09 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Purdue University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Death by Pokémon GO: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 21 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 09 Oct 2019
Downloads
5,181
Death by Pokémon Go: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving
NBER Working Paper No. w24308
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 04 Jun 2018
Downloads
19
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5,181
11.
Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 20 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus
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5,106
12.
Understanding Coronanomics: The Economic Implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 03 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 19 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Dhaka - Department of International Business
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4,456
13.
How Long Should Social Distancing Last? Predicting Time to Moderation, Control, and Containment of COVID-19
USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 30 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 22 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Department of Marketing, University of California Riverside and Augusta University
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4,315
14.
Measuring Poverty
Princeton Research Program in Development Studies Working Paper
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 13 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Princeton University
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4,281
15.
Top Ten Myths of Medicare
The Elder Law Journal, Vol. 20, pp. 1-32, 2012, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS13-02, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 11-28
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 18 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 03 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois College of Law
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3,698
16.
Restarting the Economy While Saving Lives Under COVID-19
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 22 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Finance, European University Institute and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Restarting the Economy While Saving Lives Under COVID-19
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 22 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2020
Downloads
3,654
Restarting the Economy While Saving Lives Under Covid-19
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14664
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 08 May 2020
Downloads
1
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3,654
17.
'It's a Designer Baby!' - Opinions on Regulation of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
UCLA Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 3, 2005
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 08 Feb 2011
Accepted Paper Series
United States Patent and Trademark Office
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3,503
18.
A Poisson Autoregressive Model to Understand COVID-19 Contagion Dynamics
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 10 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 06 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Pavia and University of Pavia
Downloads
3,399
19.
The Case for Universal Cloth Mask Adoption and Policies to Increase Supply of Medical Masks for Health Workers
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 06 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management, Yale School of Management, Yale University - Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale School of Management, Yale School of Management, Yale School of Public Health - Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Yale University - School of Public Health
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3,267
20.
Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Susan M. Wolf, FEMINISM & BIOETHICS: BEYOND REPRODUCTION, pp. 282-317, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 11 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School
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3,123
21.
Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 07-04
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 07 Feb 2007
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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2,915
22.
Seven Challenges for the Implementation of Balanced Scorecard in Hospitals
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 06 May 2006
Working Paper Series
Tata Consultancy Services and Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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2,818
23.
The Globalization of Innovation: Pharmaceuticals: Can India and China Cure the Global Pharmaceutical Market
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 11 Jun 2008
Last Revised: 23 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering, Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Duke University - Department of Sociology - Director, Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness, Harvard University - Labor and Worklife Program and BusinessWeek
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2,790
24.
Conceptualizing the 'Fat Tax': The Role of Food Taxes in Developed Economies
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 286
Number of pages: 107
Posted: 05 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Stanford Law School
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2,785
25.
Marijuana and Alcohol Evidence Using Border Analysis and Retail Sales Data
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 02 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 25 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Connecticut, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Department of Economics and University of Connecticut
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2,773
26.
Killer Acquisitions
Number of pages: 106
Posted: 12 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 22 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
London Business School, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management
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2,726
27.
Outdoor Recreation, Health, and Wellness: Understanding and Enhancing the Relationship
RFF Discussion Paper No. 09-21
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 29 May 2009
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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2,718
28.
Vanishing Vaccinations: Why Are So Many Americans Opting Out of Vaccinating Their Children?
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 353-440 (2004)
Number of pages: 89
Posted: 14 Apr 2005
Last Revised: 16 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington - School of Law
Downloads
2,605
29.
Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Institutions
OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 769
Number of pages: 133
Posted: 29 May 2010
Last Revised: 12 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO), Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO) and Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Policy Studies Branch
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2,559
30.
A Ranking of Journals for the Health Economist
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 04 May 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
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2,439
31.
Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 05 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 04 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro - Department of Economics and Brock School of Business, Samford University
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2,418
32.
Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition
Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 34, pp. 501-16, 2010, Cultural Cognition Project Working Paper No. 38, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-19, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 163
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 17 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, University of Colorado - Department of Psychology, Decision Research and Pennsylvania State University
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2,325
33.
Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission
Chan J., and Ghose A., "Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission", MIS Quarterly, 38(4), p. 955-976.,
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 07 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 28 May 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission
Chan J., and Ghose A., "Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission", MIS Quarterly, 38(4), p. 955-976.,
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 07 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 28 May 2015
Downloads
2,302
Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission
MIS Quarterly, 38(4), p. 955-976., NET Institute Working Paper No. 12-07
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 07 Nov 2012
Last Revised: 28 May 2015
Downloads
161
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2,302
34.
Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 11 Aug 2015
Last Revised: 29 Nov 2017
Working Paper Series
Pfizer, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
There are 2 versions of this paper
Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 11 Aug 2015
Last Revised: 29 Nov 2017
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2,302
Is the Fda Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?: A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design
NBER Working Paper No. w21499
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 31 Aug 2015
Last Revised: 29 Sep 2015
Downloads
21
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2,302
35.
Education and Hiv/Aids Prevention: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4024
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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2,282
36.
Transplant Tourism: The Ethics and Regulation of International Markets for Organs
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2013
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 22 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads
2,264
37.
Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Indian Health Care
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 09 Dec 2012
Working Paper Series
Vivin Consultants
Downloads
2,220
38.
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Consumption: Learning from High Frequency Transaction Data
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 06 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Xiamen University, National University of Singapore - NUS Business School and Xiamen University - Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE)
Downloads
2,189
39.
The Economics of Corruption in Sports: The Special Case of Doping
Edmond J. Safra Working Papers, No. 55
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 21 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania, Behavioral Ethics Lab and Bielefeld University
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Economics of Corruption in Sports: The Special Case of Doping
Edmond J. Safra Working Papers, No. 55
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 21 Jan 2015
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2,186
The Economics of Corruption in Sports - The Special Case of Doping
Bielefeld Working Papers in Economics and Management No. 17-2014
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 11 Dec 2014
Downloads
161
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2,186
40.
Coronavirus Fears and Macroeconomic Expectations
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 09 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 02 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Haverford College - Department of Economics
Downloads
2,132
41.
From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory
Minerva Center for Economic Growth Working Paper No. 2004-1
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 08 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Brown University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory
Minerva Center for Economic Growth Working Paper No. 2004-1
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 08 Jul 2004
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2,091
From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4581
Number of pages: 109
Posted: 19 Oct 2004
Downloads
16
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2,091
42.
'Just the Oven': A Law & Economics Approach to Gestational Surrogacy Contracts
PERSPECTIVES FOR THE UNIFICATION OR HARMONISATION OF FAMILY LAW IN EUROPE, pp. 412-433, Katharina Boele-Woelki, ed., Antwerp: Intersentia, 2003
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 24 Mar 2003
Last Revised: 11 Dec 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Athens - Department of History & Philosophy of Science
Downloads
2,087
43.
Do Budgets Really Matter? Evidence from Public Spending on Education and Health in Uganda
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1926
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
World Bank and The World Bank
Downloads
2,075
44.
Genes, Economics, and Happiness
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2946
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy, UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences and CREMA
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2,072
45.
Equity Styles and the Spanish Flu
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 27 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and Robeco Quantitative Investments
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2,060
46.
Hygiene and Sanitation Theory and Practice: Implications of Severe Water Shortage to Hospitality Industry in Kenya, Water Shortage to Hospitality Industry in Kenya
OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 99-103, 2010
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 12 Sep 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Kenyatta University, School of Tourism & Hospitality Management
Downloads
2,006
47.
Household Food Security in the United States, 2004
USDA-ERS Economic Research Report No. 11
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 27 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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2,003
48.
Community Competence to Regulate the Internal Market
Michael Dougan and Samantha Currie, 50 YEARS OF EUROPEAN TREATIES, Chapter 5, pp. 93-136, Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon, 2009, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9/2007
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 06 Jul 2007
Last Revised: 02 May 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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1,967
49.
Regulating in Pandemic: Evaluating Economic and Financial Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis
Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 527, March 2020
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 18 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 10 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Boston College Law School, Boston College Law School, Boston College - Law School and Boston College - Law School
Downloads
1,915
50.
The Value of Life
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, 2nd Edition, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-04
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 14 Oct 2005
Last Revised: 27 Nov 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads
1,904
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