Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on …

the county level, as well as potentially confounding weather conditions and the regional stage of the pandemic.We find …

The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce … spread of the pandemic that might easily spill over to other countries. A supranational, coordinated health and fiscal policy …

caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the … suggests that a pandemic recession will i) feature a strong transmission from employment to aggregate demand due to diminished …

pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of … individuals with little previous training in science subjects. Finally, our evidence suggests that epidemic-induced distrust …

exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We … pandemic was of a similar magnitude as that of the GFC, and the spatial pattern was also quite similar. We link the social … years before each of the two periods. To identify urban characteristics that point to economic resilience, we formulate …

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 …

In this paper, we shed light on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market, and how they have evolved … varied, and not always consistently, between Blacks and Hispanics. Statewide business closures and other restrictions on …