Human capital and the COVID-19 pandemic

Khemraj, Tarron and Yu, Sherry (2020): Human capital and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: pandemic; human capital; mortality; COVID-19
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I15 - Health and Economic Development; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I25 - Education and Economic Development

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