Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify … and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The …