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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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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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) fell substantially in the early stages of the pandemic but then surged in the second half of 2020. This surge has continued … in the pandemic, these patterns are consistent with restructuring induced by the pandemic …
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As a way of slowing COVID-19 transmission, many countries and U.S. states implemented shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. However, the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health. The effect of SIP policies on COVID-19...
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Local policies can have substantial spillovers both across geographies and markets. Little is known about the impact of public health regulations across administrative borders. We estimate U.S. county level direct and spillover effects of Stay-at-Home-Orders (SHOs) aimed at containing the spread...
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