Digital technologies may make some tasks, jobs and firms more resilient to unanticipated shocks. We extract data from over 200 million U.S. job postings to construct an index for firms' resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic by assessing the work-from-home (WFH) feasibility of their labor demand....

We use the universe of U.S. job postings to construct a firm-level index that assesses each company's work from home (WFH) suitability, and study its impact on firms' resilience during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we find strong evidence that,...

This paper employs the theoretical lens of social capital to examine social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. By exploiting daily mobile GPS location data, we provide strong evidence for the diverse effects of the two constituents of social capital, civic norms and social...