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cord-275071-2uiaruhg	Balmford, Ben	Cross-Country Comparisons of Covid-19: Policy, Politics and the Price of Life	2020-08-04		.txt	text/plain	11181	594	59	Linking decisions over the timing of lockdown and consequent deaths to economic data, we reveal the costs that national governments were implicitly prepared to pay to protect their citizens as reflected in the economic activity foregone to save lives. Accepting that they are a conservative estimate of the total impact of the pandemic, officially attributed Covid-19 deaths are used to investigate the price of life implied by lockdown policies. However, as far as we are aware, ours is the first study to use the SEIR modelling framework to examine the effects of lockdown timing across multiple countries in the same study, and the first to combine these results with financial forecasts to obtain cross-country implied price of life estimates. Table 5 shows that for those countries which under-report Covid-19 deaths, implied price of life is substantially reduced, highlighting once again that earlier lockdowns would have increased social welfare tremendously.	./cache/cord-275071-2uiaruhg.txt	./txt/cord-275071-2uiaruhg.txt