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Optimal Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic : Social Distancing and Working from Home

Jones, Callum - 2020

We study the response of an economy to an unexpected epidemic. Households mitigate the spread of the disease by …

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Cicala, Steve - 2021

This paper documents an increase in residential electricity consumption while industrial and commercial consumption has fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Hourly smart meter data from Texas reveals how daily routines changed during the pandemic, with usage during weekdays...

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How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption During the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic

Baker, Scott R.; Farrokhnia, R.; Meyer, Steffen; Pagel, … - 2021

We explore how household consumption responds to epidemics, utilizing transaction-level household financial data to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 virus. As the number of cases grew, households began to radically alter their typical spending across a number of major categories. Initially...

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COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Food Shopping Services : Empirical Evidence from Taiwan

Chang, Hung-Hao - 2020

We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the …

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Changes in the Distribution of Economic Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Nationally Representative Consumption Data

Meyer, Bruce; Murphy, Connacher; Sullivan, James X. - 2022

We examine the distribution of household consumption, income and savings from 2019 through the end of 2020 using the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and other data. This is the first work to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on economic well-being using nationally representative...

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Economic Impact Payments and Household Spending During the Pandemic

Parker, Jonathan A.; Schild, Jake; Erhard, Laura; … - 2022

Households spent only a small fraction of their 2020 Economic Impact Payment (EIPs) within a couple of months of arrival, consistent with i) pandemic constraints on spending, ii) other pandemic programs and social insurance, and iii) the broader disbursement of the EIPs compared to the economic...

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Misinformation During a Pandemic

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2020

misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus …

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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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Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality Rate

Philip, Minu - 2020

India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to “predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …

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Initial Impacts of the Pandemic on Consumer Behavior : Evidence from Linked Income, Spending, and Savings Data

Bachas, Natalie - 2020

We use U.S. household-level bank account data to investigate the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic on spending and savings. Households across the income distribution all cut spending from March to early April. Since mid April, spending has rebounded most rapidly for low-income households. We...

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