Malani, Anup; Ramachandran, Sabareesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Official statistics on deaths in India during the COVID pandemic are either incomplete or are reported with a delay. To … overcome this shortcoming, we estimate excess deaths in India using the household roster from a large panel data set, the …% CI: 2.8M to 6.2M) excess deaths over 16 months during the pandemic in India. While we cannot demonstrate causality …