We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...

We study how cost-benefit considerations shape the public acceptance of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). In an online experiment conducted on a representative sample from the US during the early COVID-19 pandemic, we provide half of our respondents with research evidence pointing to low...

Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...