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Jed Friedman
Jed Friedman is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group (Poverty and Inequality Team) at the World Bank. Jed’s research interests include the measurement of well-being and poverty as well as the evaluation of health and social policies. His current research topics include investigating the nutritional and development gains from early childhood investment programmes, as well as testing new approaches to survey-based well-being measurement. Jed holds a Bachelors in Philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.
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The intergenerational mortality tradeoff of Covid-19 lockdown policies
The introduction of lockdown policies to contain the transmission of Covid-19 led to a debate on what type of lockdowns were warranted, and whether the benefits justified the accompanying economic contractions. In this context, this article seeks to quantify the intergenerational mortality trade-off in pandemic mitigation in low- and middle-income countries, as the disease and lockdown policies affect the mortality of younger and older people differently.
