This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in …

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 …

The COVID-19 pandemic is producing a global health and economic crisis. The entire globe is facing the trade …-off between health and recessionary effects. This paper investigates this trade-off according to a macro-dynamic perspective. We … with endogenous dynamics for the pandemic. There are three main results. First, the macroeconomic effects of the epidemic …

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 …