calls to the police and to the hotline. Our results highlight the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic across DV measures …Around the world, policymakers and news reports have warned that domestic violence (DV) could increase as a result of … the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant restrictions on individual mobility and commercial activity. However, both …

by police, and arrests made relating to domestic violence. We find that the SAH order announcement increased time spent … at home, leading to a decrease in total calls for police service, but a subsequent increase in domestic violence …-related calls for police service. Effects are larger in areas with a high proportion of renters. These effects for domestic violence …

by police, and arrests made relating to domestic violence. We find that the SAH order announcement increased time spent … at home, leading to a decrease in total calls for police service, but a subsequent increase in domestic violence …-related calls for police service. Effects are larger in areas with a high proportion of renters. These effects for domestic violence …

Sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have brought a new wave … generally larger for persistent protests and those accompanied by media reports of violence. Furthermore, we find no evidence …

There is growing concern that the COVID-19 pandemic may have severe, adverse effects on the health care sector, a … aspect of this issue by estimating the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic on use of outpatient health services. We use 2010 … pandemic is associated with about a 67 percent decline in the total number of outpatient visits per provider by the week of …

I use a simple SIR model, augmented to include deaths, to elucidate how pandemic progression is affected by the control … the pandemic, and the possibility and impact of a second wave. Reducing R0 reduces the number of deaths, but extends the … duration (and hence economic cost) of the pandemic, and it increases the fraction of the population still susceptible at the …

The Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a myriad of studies and proposals on how economic policy should respond to this …

epidemic diseases raised in their quarterly earnings conference calls. We construct text-based measures of the costs, benefits …, and risks listed firms in the US and over 80 other countries associate with the spread of Covid-19 and other epidemic … diseases. We identify which firms and sectors expect to lose/gain from a given epidemic and which are most affected by the …