In the wake of the pandemic a new door of opportunity has been opened for potential entrepreneurs and well – seasoned entrepreneurs in the area of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) or B2C ventures. Not only is as a business with profit – motive but also as a social enterprise, B2C services have...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought isolation, social distancing, and economic downturn. The pandemic, and government’s response, also appears to have affected the use of tobacco and nicotine products. Stress and anxiety, both well understood drivers of nicotine use, coupled with a reduction in time...

We use U.S. household-level bank account data to investigate the heterogeneous effects of the pandemic on spending and savings. Households across the income distribution all cut spending from March to early April. Since mid April, spending has rebounded most rapidly for low-income households. We...

We build a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report daily statistics on consumer spending, business revenues, employment rates, and other key indicators disaggregated by county, industry,...