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Economic Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

Philipson, Tomas - 1999

Infectious disease is currently the main cause of mortality in the world and has been even more important historically. This paper reviews recent research in economic epidemiology. Specifically, it discusses the occurrence of infectious diseases and the effects of public health interventions...

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What Explains the COVID-19 Stock Market?

Cox, Josue - 2020

What explains stock market behavior in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic? Estimates from a dynamic asset pricing model point to wild fluctuations in the pricing of stock market risk, driven by shifts in risk aversion or sentiment. We find further evidence that the Federal Reserve...

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Pandemics Through the Lens of Occupations

Chopra, Anand - 2020

We outline a macro-pandemic model where individuals can select into working from home or in the market. Market work increases the risk of infection. Occupations differ in the ease of substitution between market and home work, and in the risk of infection. We examine the evo- lution of a pandemic...

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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for COVID-19

Beach, Brian - 2020

This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen a renewed interest because of COVID-19. We begin by providing an overview of key contextual and epidemiological details as well as the data that are...

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Building Resilient Health Systems : Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Christensen, Darin - 2020

the context of Sierra Leone and the 2014 West Africa Ebola crisis. Two years before the outbreak, we randomly assigned two … accountability interventions to government-run health clinics - one focused on community monitoring and the other conferred non … crisis, both interventions increased clinic utilization and satisfaction with healthcare, and community monitoring …

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Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2020

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave of attention to the issue of inequality within criminal justice. However, many public health officials have warned that mass protests could lead to a reduction in social...

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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics

Lin, Peter Zhixian - 2020

Covid-19 is the single largest threat to global public health since the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Was the world better prepared in 2020 than it was in 1918? After a century of public health and basic science research, pandemic response and mortality outcomes should be better than in...

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Implications of Stochastic Transmission Rates for Managing Pandemic Risks

Hong, Harrison - 2020

We develop a model of pandemic risk management and firm valuation. We introduce aggregate transmission shocks into an epidemic model and link valuations to infections via an asset-pricing framework with vaccines. Infections lower earnings growth but firms can mitigate damages. We estimate a...

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The Macroeconomics of a Pandemic : A Minimalist Model

Céspedes, Luis Felipe - 2020

We build a minimalist model of the macroeconomics of a pandemic, with two essential components. The first is productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers. The second component is a credit market imperfection: because lenders...

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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections

Liu, Laura - 2020

We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...

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