The group at IIES consists of Ingvild Almås (IIES), Tessa Bold (IIES), Tillmann von Carnap (IIES), Selene Ghisolfi (IIES and LEAP), Jesse Heitner (Aceso Global) and Justin Sandefur (Center for Global Development). Members of the group have made presentations to the Swedish development agency SIDA, DFID, and are advising policy makers in Uganda on their COVID response.

For slides from the SIDA presentation:  Covid-19 through an economist’s lens: How to design an optimal containment policy for poor countries (2068 Kb)
 

Papers:

• The Macroeconomics of Pandemics in Developing Countries: an Application to Uganda (646 Kb)
  The group explores how optimal policy varies across contexts depending on demography, comorbidities, and health system strength – which affect the infection fatality rate – as well as poverty – which affects agents’ willingness to forego current consumption to reduce disease risk. Presentation slides (587 Kb)  

• Predicted COVID-19 Fatality Rates Based on Age, Sex, Comorbidities, and Health System Capacity. Published at BMJ Global Health.

• The Consequences of the Coronavirus and Lock Down Policies - Implicit Evaluations