increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown. To formalize and quantify this …-group-specific relationship between economic downturns and child mortality. The model is calibrated to data for 85 countries across all income … mortality. The optimal lockdowns are shorter and milder in poorer countries than in rich ones and never produce a net mortality …

pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or years of life lost, increases sharply with gross domestic product …, the poverty burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution … relatively low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When …

interest rate and excess mortality, and a much higher jump intensity when the pandemic data is included. Moreover, we construct … for the market prices of risk based on mortality bond prices. Our results show that the pandemic experience can … drastically change investors’ risk perception and will likely reshape the post-pandemic mortality risk market …

We estimate excess deaths in India during the COVID pandemic using monthly deaths in the sample of a privately …