COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March 31st, 2015-2020) for Lombardy, one of …

Democracies reacted slower than autocracies to the specter of the pandemic, and the most solidly democratic among them …

the county level, as well as potentially confounding weather conditions and the regional stage of the pandemic.We find …

misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus … pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality …

on March 15, 2020 on local excess mortality in the following weeks. We exploit heterogeneity across municipalities in …

In an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe adopted social distancing …-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the … source of identification –namely, the regional variation in the placement on the pandemic curve at the time of a nationwide …

Faced with a pandemic, how does the government decide whether to shut down the economy or employ less economically … differences in policy responses to a pandemic across different countries, and why there may be a disposition for shutdowns despite …