people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people … does not affect donations to the Centers for Disease Control but does decrease the amount of time invested in learning how …

effect of shocks using generalised spatio-temporal impulse responses. These highlight the diffusion of shocks both over time …

shock leads to an improvement of 2-3% of a standard deviation in physical health, mental health and survival rates. Effects …

positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … men with negative control beliefs are by a factor of 2.7 more likely to die after a health shock. The heterogeneous labour …

at home full-time, a social distancing effect that is largest in urbanized and densely populated counties.Then, we find … adoption, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and border SIPO …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature …

in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case … the week prior to SIPO adoption and show that SIPO-induced case reductions grew larger over time. However, this average … benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths …

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 …