Background: Identifying effective treatments and policies early in a pandemic is challenging because only limited and … beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: An information-theoretic inferential approach with and without prior information was … applied to the limited data available in the second month (April 24, 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic. For comparison, a second …

This paper studies the life insurance demand responses to Covid-19 pandemic. It employs the unique individual …-level daily data on new term life insurances together with both geographical and timely variation in the severity of the pandemic ….1). We also find that highly educated people and people with high life insurance deficit levels responded to Covid-pandemic …

In an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe adopted social distancing …-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the … source of identification - namely, the regional variation in the placement on the pandemic curve at the time of a nationwide …