avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …

What are the methodologies that we should employ for designing and evaluating governmental policy, in light of the …-Being and Public Policy is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this question, drawing from welfare economics, moral … philosophy, and psychology. It covers policy-assessment methodologies, both established and emerging, and reviews philosophical …