State Capacity and Resilience to Shocks: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

• In Event: State Capacity, Taxation, and Development

Brief Overview

What determines developing countries’ resilience to exogenous shocks? This paper highlights the importance of state capacity, proposes a simple and transparent measure for it, and shows its usefulness by predicting underreporting of COVID-19 cases.

Authors

• Michael F Harsch, National Defense University

• Alexandra Norris, Harvard University