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We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …
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Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...
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The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on India have been substantial, with wide variation across states and union …. State characteristics, such as health care infrastructure and the share of services in the economy, played an important role … in shaping the health and economic outcomes, highlighting the importance of adequate social spending, health care …
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Using high-frequency proxies for economic activity over a large sample of countries, we show that the economic crisis during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic was only partly due to government lockdowns. Economic activity also contracted because of voluntary social distancing in...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses triggered a historically large wave of capital reallocation between markets and asset classes. Using high-frequency country-level data, this paper examines if and how the number of COVID cases, the stringency of the lockdown, and the fiscal...
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This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between … 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is … associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant mortality rate. For the average country, this implies that increasing per …
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The paper addresses the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita output and income, with particular emphasis on the role of … finds that HIV/AIDS affects both the supply of labor and the demand for labor in the formal sector. Only if there is a … HIV/AIDS on output is complemented by an assessment of the impact on income …
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The paper provides an analysis of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector, public education, the supply of labor … of HIV/AIDS on per capita income in a neoclassical growth framework. HIV/AIDS affects per capita income mainly through …
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Using available data on the distribution of HIV/AIDS prevalence across population groups for four sub-Saharan African … countries and transposing this information to household income and expenditure surveys, we simulate the impact of HIV/AIDS on …
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