The Covid-19 pandemic is estimated to have caused over 7 million deaths and reduced economic output by over $13 … trillion to date. While vaccines were developed and deployed with unprecedented speed, pre-pandemic investments could have …

We review economic arguments for using public policy to accelerate vaccine supply during a pandemic. Rapidly … restrained with the help of careful policy design and advance preparations. Capacity is so valuable during a pandemic that …

following the acute phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, describes enrollment increases and their composition, reviews literature …

on the evolution of the pandemic from the time of mandate enactment--information unavailable ex ante to analysts or …, with more than 20,000 total deaths averted in total. In scenarios involving a fading pandemic, existing vaccination …

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 …