the county level, as well as potentially confounding weather conditions and the regional stage of the pandemic.We find …

the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality …

fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in low-income countries, as large parts of … population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade …-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-19, we use regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions …

2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on … the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence … on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich …

How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity …, those with the worst outbreaks, were slow to recover; twelve weeks after reopening, mobility had not returned to the pre-pandemic … levels. We provide suggestive evidence that relatively undiminished pandemic concerns may have slowed down mobility recovery …

pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income … losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a difference-in-differences approach and population-wide data on monthly earnings … pandemic measures reduced earnings losses to 1.5 percent. These average effects mask considerable differences in income losses …

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This … article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be incorporated in economics and health policy … major players in the health sector in preparation for the next pandemic …

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy … fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, we collect information from the résumés of government and Party officials in 294 Chinese cities … rapidly than those lacked such backgrounds. Our findings highlight the importance of professionalism in combating the pandemic …