Migration, externalities, and the diffusion of COVID-19 in South Asia☆ [0.03%]
南亚的移民，溢出效应及COVID-19的传播
Jean N Lee,Mahreen Mahmud,Jonathan Morduch et al.
Jean N Lee et al.
The initial spread of COVID-19 halted economic activity as countries around the world restricted the mobility of their citizens. As a result, many migrant workers returned home, spreading the virus across borders. We investigate the relatio...
Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间在被迫共同居住和经济压力下的亲密伴侣暴力行为：证据
Esther Arenas-Arroyo,Daniel Fernandez-Kranz,Natalia Nollenberger
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
With the COVID-19 outbreak imposing stay at home and social distancing policies, warnings about the impact of lockdown and its economic consequences on domestic violence have surged. This paper disentangles the effect of forced cohabitation...
Economic preferences and compliance in the social stress test of the COVID-19 crisis [0.03%]
经济偏好与COVID-19危机的社会压力测试中的遵从性
Stephan Müller,Holger A Rau
Stephan Müller
We analyze in a survey study whether economic preferences and pre-crisis social responsibility predict social compliance to the policy regulations. Results show that economic preferences are closely related to compliance with policies fight...
Asocial capital: Civic culture and social distancing during COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间的非社交资本——公民文化与社交隔离政策
Ruben Durante,Luigi Guiso,Giorgio Gulino
Ruben Durante
Social distancing can slow the spread of COVID-19 if citizens comply with it and internalize the cost of their mobility on others. We study how civic values mediate this process using data on mobility across Italian provinces between Januar...
Markus Gehrsitz,Henry Saffer,Michael Grossman
Markus Gehrsitz
We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a natural experiment in Illinois where spirits...
Henry Downes,David C Phillips,James X Sullivan
Henry Downes
Does providing financial assistance to people who have just experienced an income shock affect their healthcare use? To address this question, we examine healthcare outcomes in a setting where people at risk of homelessness due to an income...
COVID-19, college academic performance, and the flexible grading policy: A longitudinal analysis [0.03%]
新冠肺炎、大学学业表现和灵活评分政策：一项纵向分析
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
I use an unbalanced panel of over 11,000 academic records spanning from Spring 2017 to Spring 2020 to identify the difference in effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across lower- and higher-income students' academic performance. Using differen...
When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times [0.03%]
疫情之下校内外的教育不平等现象：学校、同伴和父母的作用
Francesco Agostinelli,Matthias Doepke,Giuseppe Sorrenti et al.
Francesco Agostinelli et al.
What are the effects of school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic on children's education? Online education is an imperfect substitute for in-person learning, particularly for children from low-income families. Peer effects also change: ...
Jeff Larrimore,Jacob Mortenson,David Splinter
Jeff Larrimore
This paper documents the magnitude and distribution of U.S. earnings changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and how fiscal relief offset lost earnings. We build panels from administrative tax data to measure annual earnings changes. The frequ...
Whether, when and how to extend unemployment benefits: Theory and application to COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的失业保险：理论与实践
Kurt Mitman,Stanislav Rabinovich
Kurt Mitman
We investigate the optimal response of unemployment insurance to economic shocks, both with and without commitment. The optimal policy with commitment follows a modified Baily-Chetty formula that accounts for job search responses to future ...