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Human capital and the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Khemraj, Tarron
  • Yu, Sherry

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This paper examines the effect of socioeconomic, institutional and medical factors on cross-country coronavirus death rates. Our findings suggest that countries with high income and human capital, as well as effective government are likely to experience lower mortality. Furthermore, a low-income country could have low mortality and high-income high mortality when human capital is interacted with average income. Hence, the human-capital channel of income.

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  • Khemraj, Tarron & Yu, Sherry, 2020. "Human capital and the COVID-19 pandemic," MPRA Paper 101262, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:101262
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    Keywords

    pandemic; human capital; mortality; COVID-19;
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    JEL classification:

    • I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development

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