relationship between political trust and fatalities of the Covid-19 pandemic. By performing a cross-country analysis and …

It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of … individuals with little previous training in science subjects. Finally, our evidence suggests that epidemic-induced distrust …

countries with a higher degree of public corruption before the pandemic have been less successful in the vaccination of their …

The risk of recurrent outbreaks following the main waves of a pandemic has been acknowledged. We provide evidence of … the stochastic process of mortality rates after the main pandemic waves of two historical pandemics across multiple … locations. For the 1890-91 influenza pandemic in England and Wales, as well as the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in the US and …

What political legacy is bequeathed by national health crises such as epidemics? We show that epidemic exposure in an … individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and … confidence in public health systems, suggesting that the loss of confidence in political institutions and leaders is associated …

during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU resources are constrained while suppression is costly (e.g., limiting … suppression measures are continuously taken to hold down the spread throughout the epidemic, is suboptimal. Instead, the optimal … suppression is discountinuous. The epidemic should be left unregulated in a first phase and when the ICU constraint is approaching …