Estimating the Life Expectancy and Value of Statistical Life (VSL) Losses from COVID-19 Infections in the United States

Americans aged sixty or older stand to lose 153 to 222 days of life expectancy from contracting COVID-19. Over 90 percent of the U.S. population was under stay at home orders by April 2020. These social distancing measures to slow the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 or novel coronavirus have led to over 20 million new applications for unemployment benefits. Are these economic losses justified? We find the value of statistical lives lost (VSL) from an unconstrained spread of the virus which hypothetically infected 81 percent of the population would amount to $8 to $60 trillion

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Wilson, Linus
Publisher:	[2020]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Sterblichkeit \| Mortality \| USA \| United States \| Wert des Menschenlebens \| Value of life \| Coronavirus \| Menschen \| Humans \| Epidemie \| Epidemic \| Bewertung \| Evaluation \| Infektionskrankheit \| Infectious disease

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