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most citedPandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu

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econ.GN2022★ 159 cited

Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu

Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner

We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on mortality and economic activity across U.S. cities during the 1918 Flu Pandemic. The combination of fast and strin…

cs.CV2022★ 25 cited

Digitizing Historical Balance Sheet Data: A Practitioner's Guide

Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck

This paper discusses how to successfully digitize large-scale historical micro-data by augmenting optical character recognition (OCR) engines with pre- and post-processing methods.…