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 …

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify … 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 …