The 1918 influenza pandemic and its lessons for COVID-19

B Beach, K Clay, M Saavedra - Journal of Economic Literature, 2022 - aeaweb.org
This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza
pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen a renewed interest because of …

Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19

V Arthi, J Parman - Explorations in Economic History, 2021 - Elsevier
How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19
pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost—taken together, this public health …

Early assessment of the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and births in high-income countries

A Aassve, N Cavalli, L Mencarini… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Drawing on past pandemics, scholars have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic will
bring about fertility decline. Evidence from actual birth data has so far been scarce. This brief …

Pandemic roller‐coaster? Birth trends in higher‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic

T Sobotka, K Zeman, A Jasilioniene… - Population and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We use monthly birth data collected by the Human Fertility Database to analyze the impact
of the COVID‐19 pandemic on birth trends until September 2022 in 38 higher‐income …

Potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on future birth rate

MA Ullah, AT Moin, Y Araf, AR Bhuiyan… - Frontiers in Public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Here, we examine the potential effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future birth rates. This
highly contagious disease originated in China, and rapidly spread worldwide, leading to …

Disasters and community resilience: Spanish flu and the formation of retail cooperatives in Norway

H Rao, HR Greve - Academy of Management Journal, 2018 - journals.aom.org
Why are some communities resilient in the face of disasters, and why are others unable to
recover? We suggest that two mechanisms matter: the framing of the cause of the disaster …

A socially neutral disease? Individual social class, household wealth and mortality from Spanish influenza in two socially contrasting parishes in Kristiania 1918–19

SE Mamelund - Social science & medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918–19 was one of the most devastating diseases in
history, killing perhaps as many as 50–100 million people worldwide. Much of the literature …

Short-term birth sequelae of the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in the United States: state-level analysis

S Chandra, J Christensen… - American journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines short-term birth sequelae of the influenza pandemic of 1918–1920 in
the United States using monthly data on births and all-cause deaths for 19 US states in …

Fertility and the COVID-19 crisis: do gender roles really matter?

M Voicu, D Bădoi - European Societies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The recent COVID crisis has had many consequences on social life. This paper focuses on
potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility intentions. We employ a theoretical …

Birth rate decline in the later phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of policy interventions, vaccination programmes, and economic uncertainty

M Winkler-Dworak, K Zeman… - Human Reproduction …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION What are the factors influencing the decline in the birth rates observed in
higher-income countries in the later phase of the COVID-19 pandemic? SUMMARY …