, we use rich contextual data on morbidity and mortality, as well as on the socioeconomic status of parents, for the period … influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … 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 …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …

-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the …

Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of … mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date of NPI adoption by one day lowers the COVID-19 death rate by 2 … lower non-COVID mortality, suggesting that these measures slowed contagion and the pace at which the healthcare system might …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …