Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; Pichler, Stefan - In: Journal of Health Economics 36 (2014) C, pp. 1-19
We study the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on short- and medium-term economic performance in Sweden. The pandemic was one of the severest and deadliest pandemics in human history, but it has hitherto received only scant attention in the economic literature – despite representing an...