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 …

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 …

associated with higher mortality rates. During years when GDP falls, death rates rise, primarily in emerging market and … increases in mortality. In contrast, booms or periods of subdued growth are not associated with a marked decline in death rates …. Our ndings have implications for the policy response to Covid-19 and suggest that the eventual death toll of the pandemic …