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-study design we find firms with suppliers in strict-lockdown districts experienced 4.5pp higher separation rates (a 15% increase …
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We leverage the 1916 polio pandemic in the United States as a natural experiment to test whether short-term school closures result in reduced educational attainment as an adult. With over 23,000 cases of polio diagnosed in 1916, officials implemented quarantines and closed schools. Since the...
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Recent studies demonstrate that air quality improved during the coronavirus pandemic due to the imposition of social …
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This paper presents a simple price-theory approach to Covid-19 lockdown and reopening policy. The key idea is to … formulation provides economics language for a policy middle ground between society-wide lockdown and ignore-the-virus, and a new …
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than in slums during lockdown, a subset of the period before the survey …
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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 anecdotal accounts and academic research have found...
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COVID-19 became a global health emergency when it threatened the catastrophic collapse of health systems as demand for health goods and services and their relative prices surged. Governments responded with lockdowns and increases in transfers. Empirical evidence shows that lockdowns and...
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I analyze efficient government interventions to mitigate financial distress during a severe macroeconomic downturn. At the macroeconomic level, the key variable is the gap between the real wage and the shadow cost of labor. This gap is large when unemployment is high. At the micro level,...
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We provide an interim report on the Indian lockdown provoked by the covid-19 pandemic. The main topics — ranging from … the philosophy of lockdown to the provision of relief measures — transcend the Indian case. A recurrent theme is the … response. The lockdown meets all international standards so far; the relief package none …
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Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)—policies that restrict interactions in an attempt to slow the spread of disease—on local invention. We construct a panel of issued patents and NPIs adopted by 50 large US cities during...
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