Non-pharmaceutical interventions and mortality in US cities during the Great Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919

Robert Barro
Additional contact information
Robert Barro: Harvard University, American Enterprise Institute

AEI Economics Working Papers from American Enterprise Institute

Abstract: A key issue for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is whether non-pharmaceutical public-health interventions (NPIs) retard death rates. File-URL https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/non-pharmaceutical-interventions-and-mortality-in-us-cities-during-the-great-influenza-pandemic-1918-1919/

Keywords: Coronavirus; economics; Pharmaceuticals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (39)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aei:rpaper:1008563887

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in AEI Economics Working Papers from American Enterprise Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dave Adams, CIO ().