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 …

age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life … recent widening of mortality rates between rich and poor due to lifestyle-related diseases does not explain much of the rise … poor, made initial differences in lifestyle-related mortality more consequential via survivability. …

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

We estimate the impact of temperature extremes on mortality in Vietnam, using daily data on temperatures and monthly … data on mortality during the 2000-2018 period. We find that both cold and heat waves cause higher mortality, particularly … among older people. This effect on mortality tends to be smaller in provinces with higher rates of air-conditioning and …