| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w28737
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 28737
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| The Backward Art of Slowing the Spread? Congregation Efficiencies during COVID-19 |
| Casey B. Mulligan
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| 发表日期 | 2021-05-03
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| 出版年 | 2021
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Were workers more likely to be infected by COVID-19 in their workplace, or outside it? Although both economic models of the pandemic and public health policy recommendations often presume that the workplace is less safe, economic theory predicts that group cooperation significantly increases the per capita demand for public goods. Disease prevention may also have scale economies in supply. The available data from schools, hospitals, nursing homes, warehouses, grocery stores, food processing plants, hair stylists, and airlines – covering more than a million employees and students – show employers adopting mitigation protocols in the spring of 2020. Coincident with the adoption, infection rates in workplaces typically dropped from well above household rates to well below. When this occurs, the sign of the disease externality from participating in large organizations changes from negative to positive, even while individuals continue to have an incentive to avoid large organizations due to the prevention costs they impose on members. Rational cooperative prevention sometimes results in infectious-disease patterns that are opposite of predictions from classical epidemiology. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Households and Firms
; Welfare and Collective Choice
; Public Economics
; Taxation
; Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Industrial Organization
; Firm Behavior
; COVID-19
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28737
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586411
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