Covid-2019 - 2022-06-08

Date: 
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Summary: 

In "Recommended Reading," a fascinating new NBER study by our friends Casey Mulligan and Rob Arnott, documenting the mysterious recent rise in deaths other than Covid-related. Why more homicides? Why more motor deaths? Why none at all among children? Is it something about the pandemic, or our societal responses to it?