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Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
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We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of … that the sharp increase in the AHG during the Covid pandemic essentially disappeared by the end of 2021. We also document a … sharp decline in desired work hours during the pandemic that persists through the end of 2021 and is roughly double the drop …
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We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment … moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic recession of 2020 was a "shecession" in most countries with larger employment …, we also emphasize how policy choices such as furloughing policies and the extent of school closures shape the pandemic …
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The advent of a pandemic is an exogenous shock, but the dynamics of contagion are very much endogenous --and depend on … alleviating economic losses but also via incentives that affect the trajectory of the pandemic itself. We develop this idea in a … dynamic equilibrium model of an economy subject to a pandemic. Just as in conventional SIR models, infection rates depend on …
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We analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on state and local government finances, with an emphasis on health …
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the pandemic and public health policy recommendations often presume that the workplace is less safe, this paper seeks an …
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We analyze data from a survey we administered during the COVID-19 pandemic to investigate the relationship between …
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We estimate the likelihood of financial distress of U.S. hospitals in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic using AHA …
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This paper deals with COVID and macroprudential regulations in emerging markets. I document the build-up of a sturdy macroprudential structure during 2009-2019, and the relaxation of regulations in 2020-2021, as part of the effort to deal with the sanitary emergency. I show that in every...
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distributional consequences of the pandemic, which should be central to any evaluation of pandemic-related policy. Without the proper … approaches. To be useful in evaluating pandemic-related policy, such a model should have rich heterogeneity and capture how …
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