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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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Girls' Night In? Effects of the Kenyan COVID-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing
Giardili, Soledad; Jain, Sanjay; Miller, Amalia R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We present the first objective evidence on how COVID-19 lockdowns affected internet browser usage in Africa, using detailed digital trace data on PC-based and mobile-based browsing patterns of 316 Kenyans who had access to a PC, covering the period before and during Kenya's first national...
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What is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence
Armona, Luis; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Kamenica, Emir; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study newsworthiness in theory and practice. We focus on situations in which a news outlet observes the realization … the amount of "news" in the realization relative to the consumer's prior. We show that a particular scoring rule drawn … television news. We argue that the scoring rule can serve as a useful control variable in settings where a researcher wishes to …
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Officer-Involved : The Media Language of Police Killings
Moreno, Jonathan; Ouss, Aurélie; Bayer, Patrick J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States … more inclined to judge the police harshly? Returning to the news data, we find that news broadcasts are indeed especially …
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy …
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020
Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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Estimating the COVID-19 Infection Rate : Anatomy of an Inference Problem
Manski, Charles F. - 2020
these rates and reports illustrative findings, using data from Illinois, New York, and Italy. We combine the data with … rate in Italy is substantially lower than reported …
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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
that are not tested under current guidelines), is not well estimated in the literature because tests for the coronavirus …
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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
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