This chapter in an upcoming book on Climate Justice initially discusses the status of American and Canadian indigenous communities and focuses on specific tribes in North America. Following a brief introduction of Canadian and American indigenous peoples, this chapter addresses the threats faced...

The COVID-19 crisis has starkly illustrated both the strengths and limitations of U.S. biomedical innovation institutions as deployed to fight a pandemic. These innovation institutions include not just intellectual property law, but also other legal systems that structure incentives for...

This report summarises data from the 2017 Disability Markets Survey. This survey is the fifth in a longitudinal series of studies undertaken by National Disability Services (NDS) to monitor change in the supply of disability services, business conditions and the operations of disability services...

Coronavirus crisis has shown the importance of public healthcare systems, emphasizing the need to strengthen them. In Italy pandemic has stressed the problems afflicting the National Health System, bringing out the structural and organizational fragmentation present in each of the 21 regions,...

The lockdowns and stimulus programmes that governments have adopted to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic crisis have affected the distribution of income and production within and between countries. Considering both, current evidence indicates that the EU-wide and global...

"As everyone awaits developments in the [Dobbs] case, a small possibility—capable of reconfiguring the entire landscape—dwells in an unlikely place: last year’s blockbuster LGBT rights ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County."This brief commentary mines prospects that Justice Neil Gorsuch's...

This report and its accompanying interactive map show the vulnerability of every U.S. neighborhood to the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that:• High-Poverty Communities Are the Most Economically Vulnerable. About 78 percent of...

We study the problem of allocating COVID-19 vaccines or other scarce and heterogeneous medical resources to patients. We develop algorithms for maximizing aggregate match-effectiveness subject to fairness and distributional constraints. Our solution uses a novel cutoff characterization result...

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An older population, fewer hospital beds, lack of...

Anxiety during an epidemic has micro and macroeconomic consequences. I capture such anxiety in a macroeconomic setting in which heterogeneous households are uncertainty averse toward both individual and aggregate health outcomes. Fear of individual infection increases precautionary savings and...