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The Economic History of Pandemics
(World Scientific Publishing, 2023-06-13)
COVID-19 has brought the attention to the study of past pandemics to ascertain if there are common trends across pandemics and what one might anticipate in the future. This chapter reviews pandemics through the lens of ...
Did work from home “really” work during COVID-19?
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024-04-05)
Purpose:
In this study, we examine whether work from home (WFH) had an impact on firm productivity during the COVID-19 period.
Design/methodology/approach:
We employ a panel fixed-effect model using 79,201 firm-quarter ...
Gold in household portfolios during a pandemic: Evidence from India
(Elsevier, 2024-04-04)
This paper examines how Indian households allocate their savings portfolio across gold,
financial assets, and cash during the COVID-19 crisis. Our study relies on an extensive household
survey in 142 districts across 21 ...
What money couldn’t buy: social protection for migrants in India’s lockdown
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-08-23)
We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of over 11,000 respondents across 64 districts in India, conducted between December 2020 and January 2021 to examine the impact of the lockdown on internal migrants in India. ...