This study demonstrates that the corona pandemic has a significant impact on consumers’ eating habits. More food is eaten, and more convenience products such as ready-made meals and canned food with a longer shelf life are purchased. The consumption of alcohol and sweets has also increased. In...

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,...