We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in … aggregate supply, productivity, and demand shocks. We estimate a large increase in the failure rate of SMEs under COVID-19 of …, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …

a number of explanations for these findings: most firms are SMEs, many innovations are new to the firm, but not to the …

-time tracking of bullying patterns as COVID-19 disrupted in-person schooling. We first show that, prepandemic, internet searches … contain useful information about actual bullying behavior. We then show that searches for school bullying and cyberbullying … starting in fall 2020 partially returns bullying searches to pre-pandemic levels. This rare positive effect may partly explain …

The CDC reports that the association between bullying and suicides among teenagers has generated "concern, even panic …," but polices aimed at combatting bullying have received little attention from researchers. Using a difference …-in-differences estimation strategy, we find that state-level anti-bullying laws (ABLs) reduce bullying victimization, depression and suicidal …

Bullying is a behavioral phenomenon that has received increasing attention in recent times. This paper uses a … bullying. We find that, unlike cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills significantly reduce the chances of being bullied during … at age 18. We show that bullying is very costly. It increases the probability of smoking as well as the likelihood of …

We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the … resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it? What share of managers … automatically recording a random subset as complaints increases reporting of physical harassment by 288%, sexual harassment by 269 …