partner's economic support policies. Moreover, to the extent that public interventions to fight the pandemic affect financial …

We develop a novel empirical approach to identify the effectiveness of policies against a pandemic. The essence of our … approach is the insight that epidemic dynamics are best tracked over stages, rather than over time. We use a normalization … procedure that makes the pre-policy paths of the epidemic identical across regions. The procedure uncovers regional variation in …

Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected pro-sociality among individuals? After the onset of the pandemic, many charitable … experiment฀like approach, we studied how the relative local severity of the pandemic and media coverage about local COVID-19 … pandemic. While negative experiences with COVID-19 correlate negatively with giving, both approaches led us to conclude that …