The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate …

pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce … spread of the pandemic that might easily spill over to other countries. A supranational, coordinated health and fiscal policy …

Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to …

respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated … with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …

, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing and wearing a face mask), beliefs about the Covid 19 pandemic and exposure to … the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. In each country, the samples are … people have adjusted their behavior as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and their perceptions regarding the measures …

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether … the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so by … exploiting the variation among municipalities in the intensity of the COVID-19 outbreak as measured by the mortality rate among …

In an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe adopted social distancing …-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the … source of identification - namely, the regional variation in the placement on the pandemic curve at the time of a nationwide …

the county level, as well as potentially confounding weather conditions and the regional stage of the pandemic. We find …