their governors and legislators made many of their own pandemic policy choices to mitigate the damage from the virus. States …This study is an expanded and updated version of an October 2020 report card of how pandemic health, economy, and … variables: health outcomes, economic performance throughout the pandemic, and impact on education …

This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a … mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of unemployment suggests a fundamental shift in the policy responses … effects of unemployment. The paper discusses several preventative features of the program. …

respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated … with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …

the pandemic. We assess how the likelihood of the working-age population falling into the unemployment pool varies before …This paper draws on a current international analysis of pandemic consequences in the labour market and on the way … how and why the consequences of the same health epidemic are differently faced at an uneven socio-economic burden. The …

pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty …