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 … major players in the health sector in preparation for the next pandemic …

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy … public health or medicine. To investigate the effects of officials' professionalism on their response to and performance in … fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, we collect information from the résumés of government and Party officials in 294 Chinese cities …

The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected …-based measures of over- and underconfidence in the health self-perceptions among Chinese adults during the pandemic. Then, it … nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link …

School closures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic led to concerns about student learning. This paper evaluates the …

Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push … encouraged additional firm-sponsored training despite pandemic-related restrictions indicating that investments in digital … against the downturn during the pandemic. Firms that made additional investments relied less on short-time work, had more of …

pandemic, both the level and the socioeconomic composition of employment quickly returned to normal. In contrast, we find …

have been overburdened by the pandemic. Finally, NPI adoption speed appears to have been less relevant in Republican …

health costs of approximately $12.2 billion …

pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed …