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 ...
Politics and the distribution of federal funds: Evidence from federal legislation in response to COVID-19 [0.03%]
政治如何影响联邦基金的分配：来自应对新冠疫情的联邦立法的证据
Jeffrey Clemens,Stan Veuger
Jeffrey Clemens
COVID-19 relief legislation offers a unique setting to study how political representation shapes the distribution of federal assistance to state and local governments. We provide evidence of a substantial small-state bias: an additional Sen...
Orazio Attanasio,Richard Blundell,Gabriella Conti et al.
Orazio Attanasio et al.
We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the measurement of child behaviour and identify two...
Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks: Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time [0.03%]
家庭在教育冲击下的适应不平等性：实时观察由新冠引起的在线学习参与度变化
Andrew Bacher-Hicks,Joshua Goodman,Christine Mulhern
Andrew Bacher-Hicks
We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-c...
Revenge of the experts: Will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science? [0.03%]
专家的反击：COVID-19会重塑还是削弱公众对科学的信任？
Barry Eichengreen,Cevat Giray Aksoy,Orkun Saka
Barry Eichengreen
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in s...