The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …

What is the response of US governors to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this research note, we explore the determinants of …

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate …

pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … distributional characteristics. Using years of life as a welfare metric yields a single parameter that captures the underlying trade … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

inter-regional trade …

groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3 … spillover group is used as a control group …

Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic … the HIV/AIDS pandemic prior to the availability of treatment was larger in magnitude than previously understood, but may …