COVID-19 Infection Externalities: Trading Off Lives vs. Livelihoods
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- Zachary A. Bethune & Anton Korinek, 2020. "Covid-19 Infection Externalities: Trading Off Lives vs. Livelihoods," NBER Working Papers 27009, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Covid-19; Infection externalities; Cost of disease; Social distancing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models
- E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
- H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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