more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …

outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 43 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 39 million, 2 …Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for ….0 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …

. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather … significant positive effects of PM10 concentration after the onset of the illness on COVID-19 deaths specifically for elderly … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effects of this measure on mortality … significant reduction in mortality by Covid-19 and, in particular, for age groups between 40-64 and older (with larger and more … significant effects for individuals above 50). Back of the envelope calculations indicate that 4,793 deaths were avoided, in the …

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … associated with higher mortality. The death rate has a consistent strong positive relationship with the Gini coefficient for … of Covid-19 deaths with respect to the Gini coefficient, evaluated at sample means, is 0.9. Assuming the observed …

mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind … direction, we show that arguably exogenous fluctuations in local air quality impact the rate of confirmed cases and deaths from …

drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US … states with more nursing homes per capita, in states with more COVID-19 deaths, and with more health workers. The subset of …