respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated … with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …

the pandemic. We assess how the likelihood of the working-age population falling into the unemployment pool varies before …This paper draws on a current international analysis of pandemic consequences in the labour market and on the way … how and why the consequences of the same health epidemic are differently faced at an uneven socio-economic burden. The …

pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty …

In an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe adopted social distancing …-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the … source of identification - namely, the regional variation in the placement on the pandemic curve at the time of a nationwide …