The current COVID-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This … differs from the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic, when academic economists hardly paid attention to its economic features …, despite its very high mortality toll. We examine the reasons for that, by contrasting the ways epidemiologists and economists …

Using a unique sample of new Ph.D. economists in 1987 and 1997, we examine how job seekers and their employers alter …