Matthias Schrappe, Hedwig François-Kettner, Matthias Gruhl, Dieter Hart, Franz Knieps, Philip Manow, Holger Pfaff, Klaus Püschel, Gerd Glaeske: Ad hoc-Stellungnahme. Die Pandemie durch SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 – Gleichgewicht und Augenmaß behalten [Ad hoc statement. The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 – Keeping balance and sense of proportion], Köln, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg October 2020.
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Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, Joseph Vavra: US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic, in: BFI-WP, Nr. 2020-62, May 2020. The authors used microdata on income together with details of the U.S. unemployment insurance system of each state under the CARES Act to calculate the overall distribution of current insurance benefits.
Vellore Arthi, John Parman: Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing, Economic History and the Long-run Impacts of COVID-19, in: NBER Working Paper Series, Working Paper 27805, September 2020. In their work, Vellore Arthi and John Parman ask how COVID-19 could affect human capital and well-being in the long term. They observed severe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. For them, this public health crisis and the accompanying economic downturn seems to dwarf the scale, scope and destructive power of most modern pandemics. Since knowledge about other modern pandemics is largely limited to short-term effects, recent experience may do little to help predict and […]
Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama: The Economic Impact of the Black Death, in: IIEP-WP-2020-14, August 2020. The “Black Death” was the biggest demographic shock in European history. The authors of this paper review the origin, spread and mortality of the disease. They document that it was an plausibly exogenous shock for the European economy and trace its aggregate and local impacts in both the short and long term.
Brian Beach, Karen Clay, Martin H. Saavedra: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for COVID-19, in: NBER Working Paper Series, Working Paper 27673, August 2020.
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 […]
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 […]
Andrew Joseph: Actual Covid-19 case count could be 6 to 24 times higher than official estimates, CDC study shows, in: STAT, 21 July 2020.
Jordà Òscar, Sanjay R. Singh, Alan M. Taylor: Longer-Run Economic Consequences of Pandemics, in: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper 2020-09 (June 2020). The authors ask how major pandemics affect economic activity in the medium to longer term and whether the effects are consistent with what economic theory suggests. Since pandemics are rare events, they collected historical evidence from many centuries. The authors have examined asset returns using a dataset dating back to the 14th century, focusing on 12 major pandemics in which more than 100,000 people died. They also included major armed conflicts, which claimed a similar […]
Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Robert Gebeloff: Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care, in: The New York Times (May 7, 2020). In this article, the authors describe how the need to work profitably undermined the ability of nursing homes to deal adequately with the Covid 19 pandemic.
Sharon Begley: To understand who’s dying of Covid-19 look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases, in STAT, 15. Juni 2020. In her article on the STAT-News page, Begely argues that the decisive factors for dying from COVID-19 are not preexisting diseases as initially assumed. In the US, people are exposed to a significantly higher risk of dying from COVID-19 due to racist ascriptions. “The higher the percentage of Black residents in a county, the higher its death rate from Covid-19 “. Begely sees the reasons for this in the qualitatively different access to the health system, but […]
A. Danielle Iuliano u.a.: Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling study, in: The Lancet, Issue. 10127 (2018) Vol. 391, pp. 1285-1300.
John Paget and others: Global mortality associated with seasonal influenza epidemics: New burden estimates and predictors from the GLaMOR Project, in: Journal of Global Health, No. 2 (December 2019) Vol. 9.
Interview with Bernd Hontschick by Stephan Hebel: Doctor raises serious accusations against Jens Spahn: “Population repeatedly misled” (Arzt erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen Jens Spahn: „Bevölkerung immer wieder in die Irre geführt“), in: Frankfurter Rundschau, updated on 24.06.2020. In this interview, the doctor and author Bernd Hontschick makes serious accusations against the German Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn. Link to the interview on the page of the Frankfurter Rundschau
Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini, Xiao Wang: The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality, in: IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 13200, April 2020. In this article, the authors examine the impact of improved access to public health insurance on infant mortality during pandemics.
Niall P. A. S. Johnson, Juergen Mueller: Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918-1920 “Spanish” Influenza Pandemic, in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1 (2002) 76, pp. 105-115.
Christopher W. Potter: A history of influenza, in: Journal of Applied Microbiology 91 (2001), pp. 572-579. In this article, the author describes the core data of past influenza epidemics and pandemics.
Statement of the Association of Democratic Doctors (Verein demokratischer Ärztinnen und Ärzte / vdää): Für bedarfsgerechte Krankenhausstrukturen in einem demokratischen und solidarischen Gesundheitssystem (For needs-based hospital structures in a democratic and solidarity-based health care system), May 2020.
Roland Herzog: Die Toten der Coronavirus-Pandemie – ein kritischer Blick auf die Mortalitätsstatistik [The dead of the coronavirus pandemic – a critical look at mortality statistics], End of May 2020. Abstract A large part of the people on this planet were or are affected by significant coercive measures. In order to stop the pandemic and legitimize these measures, a great deal of research is being carried out on the one hand, and on the other hand, extensive figures are being made available. Every day the numbers of infected, hospitalised, deceased and convalescents are meticulously listed. It must be assumed, however, […]
Sergi Basco, Jordi Domenech and Joan R. Roses: The Redistributive Effects of Pandemics: Evidence of the Spanish Flu, in: Economic Histroy Working Papers No. 308 (May 2020).