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The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The …
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Enacted March 27, 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was the most ambitious and creative fiscal policy response to the Pandemic Recession in the United States. PPP offers forgivable loans - essentially grants - to businesses with 500 or fewer employees that meet certain requirements. In...
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We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether major crises that impact the well-being of a large number of individuals can be catalysts for civic activism. Exploiting state-level variation in COVID-19 peaks and...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify …
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This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …
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We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on …
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Early non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) significantly reduced the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, there are vast differences in how quickly governments implemented NPIs. In this paper, we analyze the role of public attention, measured as the share of daily Google searches in a...
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The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK families with young children have been doing the...
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Around the world, governments have been asking their citizens to practice physical distancing and stay at home to …
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