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A Final Report Card on the States' Response to COVID-19
Kerpen, Phil; Moore, Stephen; Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Almost exactly two years ago COVID-19 spread to the United States. Following the federalism model, the 50 states and their governors and legislators made many of their own pandemic policy choices to mitigate the damage from the virus. States learned from one another over time about what policies...
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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David - 2016
We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring...
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US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic
Ganong, Peter - 2020
We use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute … the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement … implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and July 2020, 76% of workers eligible for regular Unemployment …
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Heterogeneity in Damages from A Pandemic
Finkelstein, Amy; Kocks, Geoffrey; Polyakova, Maria; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use linked survey and administrative data to document and decompose the striking differences across demographic groups in both economic and health impacts of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The impacts of the pandemic on all-cause mortality and on employment were...
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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...
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The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies
Ma, Lin; Shapira, Gil; De Walque, Damien; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown. To formalize and quantify this effect, we build a macro-susceptible-infected-recovered...
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality
Agrawal, Virat; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Sood, Neeraj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
As a way of slowing COVID-19 transmission, many countries and U.S. states implemented shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. However, the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health. The effect of SIP policies on COVID-19...
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Researchers' Degrees-of-Flexibility and the Credibility of Difference-in-Differences Estimates : Evidence From the Pandemic Policy Evaluations
Weill, Joakim A.; Stigler, Matthieu; Deschênes, Olivier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented policy responses and a large literature evaluating their impacts. This paper re-examines this literature and investigates the role of researchers' degrees-of-flexibility on the estimated effects of mobility-reducing policies on social-distancing...
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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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