We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pan­demic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...

Der Sonderfonds des Bundes für Kulturveranstaltungen ist das zentrale Instrument zur Unterstützung der Kultur- und Veranstaltungsbranche und dabei eines von mehreren Maßnahmen, die von Bund und Ländern zur Bewältigung der Coronapandemie aufgelegt wurden. Der Sonderfonds ist ein...

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...