analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate outcomes and exploited the heterogeneity of the … difference in geographic regression discontinuity design (DiD-GRDD) to compare mortality rates in 2020 of Lombardy … analysis shows that mortality rates in Lombardy during the first wave were higher by 1-2 percentage points among the population …

evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find … that the policy reduced the number of unnatural deaths by 21 per day, or approximately 740 over the five-week period. This … constitutes a 14% decrease in the total number of deaths due to unnatural causes. We argue that this represents a lower bound on …

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 … may be understated if the impact of the coronavirus recession is neglected. …

This study examines the effect of the elderly population on SARS-CoV-2 Disease (COVID-19) mortality for a sample of 146 … countries. It shows that the elderly population is robustly associated with higher COVID-19 mortality. This effect, however …

with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …