To understand the extent to which a policy mandate’s early adoption is crucial in crisis management, we leverage unique worldwide data that record the daily evolution of policy mandate adoptions and COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. The analysis shows that the mask mandate, especially...

Existing commentaries on government responses to COVID-19 have focused on such factors as competent leadership, policy instruments, or cultural dispositions. Yet few have provided a synthesis that examines how these factors relate to each other. This article fills this gap in the debate by...

Using worldwide country-level panel data of COVID-19 emergency policies and aggregated survey responses of 46 million randomly sampled Facebook users, we study the impact of public health and economic measures on household financial worries among various demographic groups. The analysis reveals...

In the past decade, many microcredit programs havebeen created in the United States that replicate designs features of theircounterparts in the third world. The determinants of loan repayment are studiedfor four of the oldest microcredit programs in the US: the NeighborhoodEntrepreneurship...