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How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data

Chetty, Raj - 2020

We build a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report daily statistics on consumer spending, business revenues, employment rates, and other key indicators disaggregated by county, industry,...

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Whatever-It-Takes Policymaking during the Pandemic

Dominguez, Kathryn M.; Foschi, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Central banks across the globe introduced large-scale asset purchase programs to address the unprecedented circumstances experienced during the pandemic. Many of these programs were announced as open-ended to shock-and-awe market participants and restore confidence in financial markets. This...

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Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Misinformation : Evidence from a Demand Side Field Experiment on Critical Thinking

List, John A.; Ramírez, Lina M.; Seither, Julia; Unda, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

for misinformation through the lens of augmenting critical thinking skills in a field experiment during the 2022 … Presidential election in Colombia. Data from roughly 2.000 individuals suggest that our treatments enhance critical thinking …

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Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment

Gerber, Alan S. - 2011

process. We then report results from a field experiment where we provided registered voters with information about ballot … secrecy protections prior to the 2010 general election. We find that these letters increased turnout for registered citizens …

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Partisan Impacts on the Economy : Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

Snowberg, Erik - 2006

Analyses of the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes … exogenous changes in expectations about the likely winner during Election Day. Analyzing high frequency financial fluctuations … following the release of flawed exit poll data on Election Day 2004, and then during the vote count, we find that markets …

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Gender and Electoral Incentives : Evidence from Crisis Response

Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Tricaud, Clemence - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper provides new evidence on why men and women leaders make different choices. We first use a simple political agency model to illustrate how voters' gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different policies. We then test the model's predictions by...

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An Event Study of COVID-19 Central Bank Quantitative Easing in Advanced and Emerging Economies

Hartley, Jonathan S. - 2020

Amid the COVID-19 outbreak and related expected economic downturn, many developed and emerging market central banks around the world engaged in new long-term asset purchase programs, or so-called quantitative easing (QE) interventions. This paper conducts an event-study analysis of 24 COVID-19...

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Aid for Incumbents : The Electoral Consequences of COVID-19 Relief

Clemens, Jeffrey; Payson, Julia; Veuger, Stan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented levels of federal transfers to state governments. Did this funding increase benefit incumbent politicians electorally? Identifying the effect of revenue windfalls on voting is challenging because whatever conditions led to the influx of cash might also...

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Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing : Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19

Arthi, Vellore - 2020

How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19 pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost--taken together, this public health crisis and its attendant economic downturn appear poised to dwarf the scope, scale, and disruptiveness of most modern pandemics....

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Does Disease Cause Vaccination? Disease Outbreaks and Vaccination Response

Oster, Emily - 2016

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...

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