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Human capital and the COVID-19 pandemic

Tarron Khemraj and Sherry Yu

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of socioeconomic, institutional and medical factors on cross-country coronavirus death rates. Our findings suggest that countries with high income and human capital, as well as effective government are likely to experience lower mortality. Furthermore, a low-income country could have low mortality and high-income high mortality when human capital is interacted with average income. Hence, the human-capital channel of income.

Keywords: pandemic; human capital; mortality; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I0 I15 I18 I25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06-12
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