In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …

contagious diseases failed to make a difference. States with centralized health systems and those with mask mandates generally …

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has resulted in the death of over four million people since late 2019. To …

the scale and duration of this outbreak risk. We compile municipal public health records and use national data to model …

remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …

This paper examines the impact of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic on China’s trade. Using …

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … cannot explain cross-country differences in COVID-19 confirmed deaths. The fatalities of coronavirus are mostly explained by … cross-country variation in health infrastructures (e.g., share of out of pocket spending on health per capita and the number …

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …