PUBLIC HEALTH & THE ECONOMY
A Lesson from History? Worsening Mortality and the Rise of the Nazi Party in 1930s Germany (2021) (with Jacob Bor, Gregori Galofré-Vilà, Martin McKee, and David Stuckler) Public Health.
A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics (2021) (with Peter Z. Lin) Economics and Human Biology
Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19 (with Peter Z. Lin) NBER Working paper 27119
Austerity and the Rise of the Nazis (forthcoming Journal of Economic History with Gregori Galofré-Vilà, Martin McKee, and David Stuckler) Press coverage: Newsweek and Vox.
Does investment in the health sector promote or inhibit economic growth? (with Aaron Reeves, Sanjay Basu, Martin McKee, and David Stuckler)
Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: evidence from US urban populations, 1929-1937 with David Stuckler, Price V. Fishback, Sanjay Basu and Martin McKee. Journal of Epidemiological and Community Health 2011.
Can a bank crisis break your heart? with David Stuckler, and Lawrence King Globalization and Health. We show that banking crises are related to increases in death rates from heart disease.
Press coverage from the Financial Times, BBC, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, FT Alphaville, Maclean's, AFP and other blogs. David Stuckler also appeared on CNBC Europe Tonight
Critical review of the literature and this paper by Tapia Granados