The economic burden of COVID-19 in the United States: Estimates and projections under an infection-based herd immunity approach

Simiao Chen, Klaus Prettner, Michael Kuhn and David E. Bloom

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2021, vol. 20, issue C

Abstract: To assess the economic burden of COVID-19 that would arise absent behavioral or policy responses under the herd immunity approach in the United States and compare it to the total burden that also accounts for estimates of the value of lives lost.

Keywords: COVID-19; Economic burden; Health-augmented macroeconomic model; Herd immunity; Human capital; Production function; United States; Value of a statistical life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100328

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