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Does policy communication during COVID work?
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we … changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We …
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Sudden stop: when did firms anticipate the potential consequences of COVID-19?
Buchheim, Lukas; Krolage, Carla; Link, Sebastian - 2020
COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The announcement of nation-wide school closures on March 13...
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Social networks and housing markets
Bailey, Michael; Cao, Ruiqing; Kuchler, Theresa; … - 2016
The recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from Facebook with...
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Social distancing during a pandemic : the role of friends
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2020
live in areas with worse coronavirus outbreaks reduce their mobility more than otherwise similar users whose friends live …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388171
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The association of opening K-12 schools and colleges with the spread of Covid-19 in the United States : county-level panel data analysis
Chernozhukov, Victor; Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Schrimpf, Paul - 2021
This paper empirically examines how the opening of K-12 schools and colleges is associated with the spread of COVID-19 using county-level panel data in the United States. Using data on foot traffic and K-12 school opening plans, we analyze how an increase in visits to schools and opening schools...
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The "Great Lockdown": inactive workers and mortality by Covid-19
Borri, Nicola; Drago, Francesco; Santantonio, Chiara; … - 2020
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, among other previous "non-pharmaceutical interventions", on March 22, 2020 the … estimates the causal effect of this measure on mortality by Covid-19 and on mobility patterns. The identification of the causal …. We also find that the economic lockdown, as expected, led to a reduction in human mobility. Several robustness checks …
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Homophily and transmission of behavioral traits in social networks
Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2023
Social networks are a key factor of success in life, but they are also strongly segmented on gender, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily: behavioral traits. Behavioral traits are important determinants...
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Informal social interactions, academic achievement and behavior : evidence from peers on the school bus
Lenard, Matthew A.; Silliman, Mikko - 2024
We study the effects of informal social interactions on academic achievement and behaviour using idiosyncratic …
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Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work
Schneider, Florian; Brun, Fanny; Weber, Roberto A. - 2020
We use surveys, laboratory experiments and administrative labor-market data to study how heterogeneity in the perceived immorality of work and in workers' aversion to acting immorally interact to impact labor market outcomes. Specifically, we investigate whether those individuals least concerned...
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