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 …

analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate outcomes and exploited the heterogeneity of the … difference in geographic regression discontinuity design (DiD-GRDD) to compare mortality rates in 2020 of Lombardy … analysis shows that mortality rates in Lombardy during the first wave were higher by 1-2 percentage points among the population …

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 …

than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions …. We estimate the relationship between unemployment, a widely accepted proxy for economic climate, and mortality in … Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age …

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 …