by the Federal Reserve, stimulus measures, as well as recommendations from health officials. This experiment allows us to …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

live in areas with worse coronavirus outbreaks reduce their mobility more than otherwise similar users whose friends live … of the disease and inducing individuals to participate in mitigating public health behavior …

measures adopted by the German government. Based on a spatio-temporal endemic-epidemic model we show that in retrospective … in Germany on the early stages of the epidemic, is not optimal …

while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central … message is that there is no “health vs. economics” dichotomy. Rather, some degree of lockdown is typically optimal in crisis … like this, balancing its economic costs against its health benefits. Moreover, the optimal lockdown is dynamic, changes …

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 … health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for … outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 43 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 39 million, 2 …