. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases … human toll and impose a staggering economic burden, early and targeted health and economic policy interventions can often …

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan … the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. In each country, the samples are …

trigger adverse effects on the National Health System during a pandemic. In this paper, we present data on these factors and … resource endowments. Conclusions - Evidence-based policy is crucial to mitigate the health impact of pandemics such as COVID-19 …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … 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 …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well … traditional academic silos. In response to this "crisis of communication," we convened a group of scholars from epidemiology …, economics, and related fields (e.g., statistics, engineering, and health policy) to discuss approaches to modeling economy …

pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German workers. Employing an event-study design … health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent …

exploiting the variation among municipalities in the intensity of the COVID-19 outbreak as measured by the mortality rate among … the elderly. We find that a 1 percentage point increase in the elderly mortality rate decreased the voter turnout by 0 …