Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...

We analyse the short-term impact of social distancing measures on the US labour market, using a panel threshold model with high frequency (weekly) data on unemployment across US states. We find that changes in the restrictiveness of mandated social distancing, as measured by the Oxford...

Die durch das SARS-CoV-2 Virus verursachte COVID-19-Pandemie hat erhebliche Mängel bei der Erfassung und Dokumentation des Sterblichkeitsgeschehens in Deutschland offenbart. Die bestehenden Mängel schaden kurz- und langfristig dem Schutz der in Deutschland lebenden Menschen nicht nur gegen...