A Research Program on COVID-19: Three Examples
The talk is about the research within SWECOV, a large research pogram on the COVID-19 pandemic. The program is built on a rich set of medical, social and economic microdata from Sweden and was started when I served on the Swedish Corona Commission. In the seminar, I will give three examples of concrete projects. The first escribes the inequaltites, along different social gradients, in the medical, social and economic outfalls of the pandemic. The second project analyzes how pandemic shocks affected outputs across individual firms in exposed sectors, and the earnings across individual workers in those sectors. The third project will gauge the real-world vaccine effectiveness estimated from a set of natural experiments associated with the roll-out of the vaccine — as opposed to the vaccine efficacy estimated from RCTs before vaccine approval.
Date:
11 November 2024, 11:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Skills Lab
Speaker:
Torsten Persson (Stockholm University)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Part of:
Political Economy Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Edward Clark
