This paper examines the determinants of social distancing during the COVID-19 epidemic. We classify state and local … states to the prevailing knowledge of public health risks. Early state policies conveyed information about the epidemic …

In the early phases of the COVID-19 epidemic labor markets exhibited considerable churn, which we relate to three …

response to the COVID-19 epidemic. These actions, together with voluntary social distancing, appear to have reduced the rate of …

the epidemic is less than a year old, it has generated a huge volume of research by economists, epidemiologists, and …For much of 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic upended social and economic life globally. In an effort to reduce COVID-19 …, adding to voluntary reductions in interpersonal contact. The responses to the epidemic helped contain spread, but also lead …