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Older People are Less Pessimistic About the Health Risks of Covid-19

Bordalo, Pedro - 2020

A central question for understanding behaviour during the Covid-19 pandemic, at both the individual and collective levels, is how people perceive the health and economic risks they face. We conducted a survey of over 1,500 Americans from May 6 – 13, 2020, to understand these risk perceptions....

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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This Time it's Different : The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession

Alon, Titan - 2020

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession … causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue that women have experienced sharp employment losses both because their … employment is concentrated in heavily affected sectors such as restaurants, and due to increased childcare needs caused by school …

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Does Fintech Substitute for Banks? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

Erel, Isil - 2020

New technology promises to expand the supply of financial services to borrowers poorly served by the banking system. Does it succeed? We study the response of FinTech to financial services demand created by the introduction of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). We find that FinTech is...

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Learning from Deregulation : The Asymmetric Impact of Lockdown and Reopening on Risky Behavior During Covid-19

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic, states issued and then rescinded stay-at-home orders that restricted mobility. We develop a model of learning by deregulation, which predicts that lifting stay-at-home orders can signal that going out has become safer. Using restaurant activity data, we find that...

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Norwegian and Us Policies Alleviate Business Vulnerability Due to the Covid-19 Shock Equally Well

Alstadsæter, Annette - 2020

We use Norwegian administrative data and applications for emergency government support to simulate magnitude and distribution of business revenue shock due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We rely on it to analyze the impact of business support policies available in Norway and the United States by...

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The Effect of Fiscal Stimulus : Evidence from Covid-19

Garza Casado, Miguel - 2020

Policymakers, faced with different options for replacing lost earnings, have had limited evidence to inform their decisions. The current economic crisis has highlighted the need for data that are local and timely so that different fiscal policy options on local economies can be more immediately...

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The US COVID-19 Baby Bust and Rebound

Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Levine, Phillip B. - 2022

This paper documents how the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. affected birth rates. We review the economics of fertility, describing the evidence that would predict a COVID baby bust. We then use Vital Statistics birth data to estimate the size of that bust and its rebound, for the country as a...

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Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women

Goldin, Claudia - 2022

The impact of the pandemic on the employment, labor supply, and caregiving of women is assessed. Compared with previous … recessions, that induced by COVID-19 impacted women’s employment and labor force participation more relative to men. But the big …” occupations and establishments experienced large reductions in employment. Black women were more negatively impacted beyond other …

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An Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program Using Administrative Payroll Microdata

Autor, David H.; Cho, David; Crane, Leland Dod; Goldar, Mita - 2022

-19 pandemic, aimed to assist small businesses to maintain employment and wages during the crisis. We use high … on the evolution of employment at PPP-eligible firms relative to PPP-ineligible firms, where eligibility is determined by … industry-specific firm-size cutoffs. We estimate that the PPP boosted employment at eligible firms by between 2 percent to 5 …

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