An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Epidemic: The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies
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- Brotherhood, Luiz & Kircher, Philipp & Santos, Cezar & Tertilt, Michèle, 2020. "An Economic Model of the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies," IZA Discussion Papers 13265, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Santos, Cezar & Brotherhood, Luiz & Kircher, Philipp & Tertilt, Michèle, 2020. "An economic model of the Covid-19 epidemic: The importance of testing and age-specific policies," CEPR Discussion Papers 14695, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Covid-19; testing; social distancing; age-specific policies;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E17 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
- C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2020-07-27 (Health Economics)
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