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May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

Six-Country Survey on Covid-19

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing and wearing a face mask), beliefs about the Covid 19 pandemic and exposure to the virus, socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic health characteristics. (The data can be accessed here.)

Recommended citation: Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Six-Country Survey on Covid-19, on: Covid-19 Research Conduit (May 2020), URL: http://www.covid-19-research-conduit.org/2020/05/06/six-country-survey-on-covid-19/.

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Macroeconomic consequences of stay-at-home policies

Studying the macroeconomic impact of lockdown measures, Neha Bairoliya and Ayse Imrohoroglu find that mitigation efforts targeted towards certain age and health groups result in significantly smaller economic disruptions compared to an indiscriminate lockdown.

April 29, 2020

“From extinguishing an epidemic to managing it”

Combining epidemiology with economic models, Simon Loertscher and Ellen V. Muir determine the minimum degree of lockdown that assures that the maximum capacity of the health care system is not exceeded while a certain amount of social and economic liberty is preserved.

April 21, 2020

Misinformation During a Pandemic

On this important topic, Nikolaj Broberg points us to a paper that examines the news coverage of the Corona pandemic in the two US cable news shows Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight (Fox).

April 20, 2020

More from the NBER

The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
Jeffrey E. Harris #27021

Economic Policy Incentives to Preserve Lives and Livelihoods
Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco #27020

Lock-downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Daniel S. Hamermesh #27018

Covid-19: Testing Inequality in New York City
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Ken Teoh, and Martín Uribe #27019

Did California’s Shelter-in-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Benefits
Andrew I. Friedson, Drew McNichols, Joseph J. Sabia, and Dhaval Dave #26992

Risk Perception Through the Lens of Politics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
John M. Barrios and Yael Hochberg #27008

Estimating the COVID-19 Infection Rate: Anatomy of an Inference Problem
Charles F. Manski and Francesca Molinari #27023

Covid-19 Infection Externalities: Trading Off Lives vs. Livelihoods
Zachary A. Bethune and Anton Korinek #27009

Labor Markets During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Michael Weber #27017

Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus: Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, Glenn Ellison, and Sara Fisher Ellison #27007

April 19, 2020April 19, 2020

Random (?) testing in Santa Clara County

Bendavid et al report the results of a “representative sample” recruited from Facebook of anti-body testing.

April 19, 2020

Impact of the lockdown on economic activity in Spain

Carvalho et al in “Tracking the COVID-19 crisis with high resolution transaction data” find a nearly 50% decline in activity after the lockdown and about a 50% increase in the share of online sales. In the days before the lockdown there was about a 20% increase in sales – presumably due to stockpiling.

April 14, 2020April 26, 2020

“Stay Nearby or Get Checked”

Looking for a viable exit strategy Jan-Tino Brethouwer, Arnout van de Rijt et al. simulate a scenario in which the lockdown is partially lifted while long-range transmissions of the contagion are strictly prevented. Such strategy, their results show, can limit significantly the spread of a second wave. First public resonance here. Bloomberg reported on these findings on 24 April.

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

Large batch of NBER working papers

The Geographic Spread of COVID-19 Correlates with Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
Theresa Kuchler, Dominic Russel, Johannes Stroebel
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26990?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

Firm-level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: Covid-19, SARS, and H1N1
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, Ahmed Tahoun
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26971?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

How Deadly Is COVID-19? Understanding The Difficulties With Estimation Of Its Fatality Rate
Andrew Atkeson
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26965?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Hunt Allcott, Levi Boxell, Jacob C. Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, David Y. Yang
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26946?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

Social Distancing, Internet Access and Inequality
Lesley Chiou, Catherine Tucker
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26982?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown
Fernando E. Alvarez, David Argente, Francesco Lippi
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26981?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey
Alexander W. Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher T. Stanton
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26989?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

Covid19 and the Macroeconomic Effects of Costly Disasters
Sydney C. Ludvigson, Sai Ma, Serena Ng
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26987?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

COVID-Induced Economic Uncertainty
Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Stephen J. Terry
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26983?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods
George J. Borjas
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26952?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg6

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Unless one gets everyone to act, policies may be ineffective

Measures of social distancing and reducing contacts need to be implemented robustly and evenly, write Alessio Muscillo and Paolo Pin, otherwise such policies may have adverse effects.

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