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Confidence in public institutions is critical in containing the COVID-19 pandemic

A new GLO Discussion Paper finds that confidence in public institutions is one of the most important predictors of deaths attributed to COVID-19. GLO Discussion Paper No. 861, 2021 Confidence in public institutions is critical in containing the COVID-19 pandemic … Continue reading

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Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible demonstrate for Italy that supervised machine learning techniques outperform the official statistical method by substantially improving the prediction accuracy of local mortality. Local mortality estimates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy by … Continue reading

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The George Soros Visiting Chair at the School of Public Policy of the Central European University (CEU). The deadline to apply for the next term is June 30, 2021.

The George Soros Visiting Chair or Practitioner Chair is awarded to scholars or practitioners who have demonstrated outstanding achievement or a distinguished record of participation in the academic, professional, journalistic, political, or civic world of public policy. Deadline for applications … Continue reading

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Stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and trust

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for the USA that mobility decreases significantly more in high-trust counties than in low-trust counties after stay-at-home orders are implemented. Stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and trust by Abel Brodeur, Idaliya Grigoryeva … Continue reading

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Submission Deadline Today (June 18): 36th EBES Conference – Istanbul July 1-3, 2021.

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Due Process for Professor Andreu Mas-Colell

In an unusual move, Alex Mas, Professor at Princeton University, has made public the serious trouble his father Andreu Mas-Colell is confronted with: https://twitter.com/AlexMasPton/status/1404438469057863683 To raise the public attention on this case, Dora Costa, Professor of Economics, UCLA has started … Continue reading

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Religiosity, Smoking and Other Addictive Behaviors

While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and drugs among … Continue reading

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Invitation to participate: Fourth IESR-GLO Conference on ‘Social Safety Net and Welfare Programs’ online on June 24-26, 2021. Program and registration information.

The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University and the Global Labor Organization (GLO) are jointly organizing the Fourth IESR-GLO Virtual Conference. The conference this year will be held from June 24 (Thursday) to June 26 (Saturday), … Continue reading

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

A new GLO Discussion Paper reviews migration out of the UK after Brexit and Covid-19, and discusses possible future flows and impacts. GLO Discussion Paper No. 854, 2021 Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit – Download PDFby Portes, Jonathan … Continue reading

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School closures and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

A new paper published ONLINE FIRST freely accessible finds for Japan that during Covid-19 school closures increased the inequality of mental health between genders and parents with different educational backgrounds. The Global Labor Organization (GLO) is an independent, non-partisan and … Continue reading

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