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U.S. Economic Activity During the Early Weeks of the Sars-Cov-2 Outbreak

Lewis, Daniel J. - 2020

the response to the novel Coronavirus in the United States. The WEI shows a strong and sudden decline in economic activity …

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Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic in the United States

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2020

Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...

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Inflation with Covid Consumption Baskets

Cavallo, Alberto - 2020

The Covid-19 Pandemic has led to changes in consumer expenditure patterns that can introduce significant bias in the measurement of inflation. I use data collected from credit and debit transactions in the US to update the official basket weights and estimate the impact on the Consumer Price...

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Understanding Spatial Variation in Covid-19 Across the United States

Desmet, Klaus - 2020

We analyze the correlates of COVID-19 cases and deaths across US counties. We consider a wide range of correlates - population density, public transportation, age structure, nursing home residents, connectedness to source countries, etc. - finding that these variables are important predictors of...

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Disparities in Vulnerability to Severe Complications from Covid-19 in the United States

Wiemers, Emily - 2020

This paper provides the first nationally representative estimates of vulnerability to severe com-plications from COVID-19 overall and across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine the prevalence of specific health condi-tions...

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Excess Deaths in the United States During the First Year of Covid-19

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2022

research has frequently underestimated baseline deaths and so has overstated excess mortality and the percentage of it …

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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - 2022

In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...

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A New Interpretation of Productivity Growth Dynamics in the Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic Era U.S. Economy, 1950-2022

Gordon, Robert J.; Sayed, Hassan - 2022

The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4.1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This...

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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Joskow, Paul L. - 2022

This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...

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The Impact of Public and Private Research Support on Premature Cancer Mortality and Hospitalization in the U.S., 1999-2013

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2017

We use data from PubMed and other sources to examine the impact of public and private research support on premature … longitudinal, cancer-site-level data on about 30 cancer sites. The estimates indicate that cancer sites about which more research …-2013, controlling for the change in the number of people diagnosed. Cancer sites for which more non-research-supported articles were …

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