Monthly archives: September 2020

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Epidemics, inequality and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial times

Guido Alfani: Epidemics, inequality and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial times, in: IIEP-WP-2020-16 (August 2020). This paper is part of a symposium organized by Dr. Remi Jedwab of George Washington University that will be published in the Journal of Economic Literature. Recent research has examined the distributive consequences of major historical epidemics. The current crisis triggered by Covid-19 prompted the author to look at the past to gain insights into how pandemics can affect inequalities in income, wealth and health. The fourteenth-century Black Death, which is usually believed to have led to a significant reduction in economic inequality, has […]

Literature review on economic aspects

A literature review of the economic aspects of COVID-19 Abel Brodeur, David Gray, Anik Islam, Suraiya Jabeen Bhuiyan: A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19, in: IZA DP No. 13411 (June 2020). With their contribution, the authors aim to provide an overview of the newly published and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of Covid-19 and government reactions, and to summarize the findings of a very large number of studies. In this survey they provide: (a) an overview of the data sets used to measure social distancing and Covid-19 cases and deaths; (b) a review of the literature […]