, 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 …

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

pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy … fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, we collect information from the résumés of government and Party officials in 294 Chinese cities … rapidly than those lacked such backgrounds. Our findings highlight the importance of professionalism in combating the pandemic …

Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on …

Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there …

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

exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We … pandemic was of a similar magnitude as that of the GFC, and the spatial pattern was also quite similar. We link the social …

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …