Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is theoretically ambiguous: while urban areas have traditionally been associated with heightened exposure to environmental pollutants, the economies of scale and density inherent to...

Based on a dynamic panel data model, this paper estimates the impact of lockdown policies on inflation with metropolitan-level data in the US. After controlling for the unit/time fixed effects and a number of aggregate demand/supply shifters, lockdown policies created a mild inflationary effect...