The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to changes in consumer expenditure patterns that can introduce significant bias in the …

misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus … pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

employment when consumer spending is constrained by health concerns. During a pandemic, it may be more fruitful to mitigate …

pandemic. The announcement of the upcoming transfers affects neither consumption, well-being, nor social distancing. Once … promoting adherence to public health protocols during a pandemic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We analyze the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on state and local government finances, with an emphasis on health …