This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the
education gender gap and its evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first …

We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics
since the late twentieth century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth …

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We analyze the determination of the optimal intensity and duration of social distancing policy
aiming to control the spread of an infectious disease in a simple macroeconomic …

We analyse the economic consequences for poor countries of investing in female health
within a unified growth model featuring health-related gender differences in productivity …

Well-being is increasingly viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, of which income is
only one facet. In this paper I focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure …

When exposed to an adverse income shock, cash-constrained households may lean on
culture to select the gender of offspring whose outcomes will be sacrificed to enhance …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of infectious diseases on trade and
economic growth in 88 countries (44 developed countries and 44 developing countries) …

We investigate the link between the 1918 Great Influenza and regional economic growth in
Italy, a country in which the measures implemented by public authorities to contain the …

We develop an economic model of aging in which the susceptibility and severity of infectious
diseases depend on the accumulated health deficits (immunosenescence) and the life …