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ArticleRegional science and urban economics2022

Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis.

Augusto Cerqua, Marco Letta

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Article in Regional science and urban economics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. From the Triage to the Intermediate Area: A Simple and Fast Model for COVID-19 in the Emergency Department.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Augusto CerquaDepartment of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Marco LettaDepartment of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper assesses the pandemic's impact on Italian local economies with the newly developed machine learning control method for counterfactual building. Our results document that the economic effects of the COVID-19 shock vary dramatically across the Italian territory and are spatially uncorrelated with the epidemiological pattern of the first wave. The largest employment losses occurred in areas characterized by high exposure to social aggregation risks and pre-existing labor market fragilities. Lastly, we show that the hotspots of the COVID-19 crisis do not overlap with those of the Great Recession. These findings call for a place-based policy response to address the uneven economic geography of the pandemic.

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Counterfactual approachCOVID-19Impact evaluationItalyLocal labor marketsMachine learning

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PMID34785828
PMCPMC8585964

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