Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low … for Vietnam. We employ difference-in-differences econometric models to estimate the causal effects of the lockdown, using …

This paper investigates the role of testing and age-composition in the Covid-19 epidemic. We augment a standard SIR …

, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing and wearing a face mask), beliefs about the Covid 19 pandemic and exposure to … the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. In each country, the samples are … calibrating certain parameters used in economic and epidemiological models, or for documenting the impact of the crisis on …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread …

What is the response of US governors to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this research note, we explore the determinants of …

pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed …

Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real …-paying jobs. This led to a dramatic increase in inequality in labor earnings during the pandemic. Simulating standard unemployment … benefits and UI provisions in the CARES Act, we estimate that UI payments exceeded total pandemic earnings losses between March …

We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within …-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that support for markets … significantly declines after the onset of the pandemic, with students less likely to think markets are efficient and more likely to …