HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic
Over 40 short reports on the response to the pandemic in the authors country/region. View the full HEPL blog series here
From time to time, until the crisis has passed, the HEPL blog series authors will be given the opportunity to provide short updates on their country/region’s continuing response to this worldwide catastrophe and their further reflections on those responses. Each update will be labelled accordingly with the original response at the bottom of each post. Now featuring 28 report updates for August.
Journal of Benefit- Cost Analysis (JBCA)
JBCA has recently published three fast-tracked articles as part of the Cambridge Coronavirus Collection, all are available Open Access:
Behavioral Welfare Economics
Cass R. Sunstein
The Benefits and Costs of Using Social Distancing to Flatten the Curve for COVID-19
Linda Thunström, Stephen C. Newbold, David Finnoff, Madison Ashworth and Jason F. Shogren
Forming Covid-19 policy under uncertainty
Charles F. Manski
Behavioural Public Policy
Testing for COVID-19: willful ignorance or selfless behavior?
LINDA THUNSTRÖM, MADISON ASHWORTH, JASON F. SHOGREN, STEPHEN NEWBOLD and DAVID FINNOFF
National Institute Economic Review
August issue: The prospects for regional disparities in the UK in times of Brexit and Covid-19
Including the articles:
Living with Covid-19: balancing costs against benefits in the face of the virus
by David Miles, Mike Stedman and Adrian Heald
COVID-19 impacts on destitution in the UK
by Arnab Bhattacharjee and Elena Lisauskaite
Economic Crisis – Virtual Special Issue
The selected papers look at a wide range of issues connected with the economic crises NIESR has published in the Review since the early 1980s.
The Journal of Economic History
Economic History Research on Pandemics and Health Shocks
Journal of Pension Economics & Finance
How the COVID-19 pandemic could reduce near-retirees' Social Security benefit
Andrew G. Biggs
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
COVID-19’s Impact on Farmers Market Sales in the Washington, D.C., Area
Jeffrey K. O’Hara, Timothy A. Woods, Nony Dutton and Nick Stavely
The Press has made a growing collection of relevant book chapters and journal articles freely available on Cambridge Core. The Press has also joined the Wellcome Trust and more than 30 leading publishers in committing to making all of our COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, immediately accessible in PubMed Central (PMC) and other public repositories. Learn more here and view the full collection here.