The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This … article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be incorporated in economics and health policy … analyses. We then review the literature on the importance of public health measures, including taking early, targeted, and …

by the Federal Reserve, stimulus measures, as well as recommendations from health officials. This experiment allows us to …

, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with … in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case … benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths …

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a … that they are not cost-effective. We find that expansions of transportation networks have significant health costs in …

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro …-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of … population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …

adoption, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and border SIPO … urbanized counties. These results suggest that the later statewide mandate yielded relatively few health benefits …

Coronavirus has credited the State of California for taking early action to prevent a statewide COVID-19 outbreak, no study has … examined the impact of California's SIPO.Using daily state-level coronavirus data and a synthetic control research design, we …

sadness, while searches for stress, suicide and divorce on the contrary fell. Our results suggest that people's mental health …