contributed to limiting the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths by forcing people to practice social distancing, and (2) the … and fatality numbers and therefore directly limit the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. The panel analysis on federal … and deaths. Due to the lack of cross-sectional variation, there is uncertainty about the effect of mask mandate. …

Kahn (2005) found that ethnic heterogeneity reduces the number of deaths caused by natural disasters, a finding that is … positively related to number of deaths, while ethnic fractionalization is not. This implies that ethnic polarization increases …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature … suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … county-level COVID-19 deaths and cases. Despite popular media coverage to the contrary, we find that counties with more Toxic …

This paper examines cross-country evidence of how the Covid-19 pandemic spread and the mortality rates associated with … pollution) increase the spread of the pandemic and/or the mortality rate. On average, the government policy delay in mobility … pandemic mortality. Individualistic culture and general trust amplify the positive links between pandemic mortality and the …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

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 … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate …