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...
Do Financial Incentives Aimed at Decreasing Inter household Inequality Increase Intra household Inequality? [0.03%]
旨在减少家庭间不平等的经济激励措施会增加家庭内的不平等吗？
Amanda Chuan,John List,Anya Samek
Amanda Chuan
Research has shown that giving disadvantaged families financial incentives to invest in their children could decrease socioeconomic inequality by enhancing human capital formation. Yet, within the household how are such gains achieved? We u...
The effect of economic conditions on the disability insurance program: Evidence from the great recession [0.03%]
经济状况对残疾保险计划的影响：来自大衰退的证据
Nicole Maestas,Kathleen J Mullen,Alexander Strand
Nicole Maestas
We examine the effect of job displacement during the Great Recession on the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. Exploiting variation in the severity and timing of the recession across states, we estimate the effect of unemp...
Signe-Mary McKernan,Caroline Ratcliffe,Breno Braga
Signe-Mary McKernan
We address a question at the center of many policy debates: how effective is the US safety net? Many existing studies evaluate the effect of one program on economic hardship in isolation, though families typically participate in multiple pr...
Electoral concerns reduce restrictive measures during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
选举考量减少新冠疫情期间的限制措施
Massimo Pulejo,Pablo Querubín
Massimo Pulejo
The outbreak of COVID-19 has called for swift action by governments, often involving the adoption of restrictive measures such as lockdowns. In this context, leaders have faced a trade-off between imposing stringent measures to limit the co...
Timothy Halliday,Bhashkar Mazumder,Ashley Wong
Timothy Halliday
We present estimates of intergenerational mobility in self-reported health status (SRHS) in the US using data from the PSID. We estimate that the rank-rank slope in SRHS is 0.26. We show that including both parent health and income in model...
Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
prosociality预测COVID-19大流行期间的健康行为
Pol Campos-Mercade,Armando N Meier,Florian H Schneider et al.
Pol Campos-Mercade et al.
Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases. However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from prosocial motivations as a driver of behaviors that impact the health...
David S Abrams
David S Abrams
Data from 25 large U.S. cities is assembled to estimate the impact of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime. There is a widespread immediate drop in both criminal incidents and arrests most heavily pronounced among drug crimes, theft,...
Human mobility restrictions and the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China [0.03%]
人类移动限制对中国2019新型冠状病毒(2019-ncov)传播的影响
Hanming Fang,Long Wang,Yang Yang
Hanming Fang
We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). We employ difference-in-differences (DID)...
What the COVID-19 school closure left in its wake: Evidence from a regression discontinuity analysis in Japan [0.03%]
新冠疫情所致学校关闭的“后遗症”——来自日本的一项回归断点分析证据
Reo Takaku,Izumi Yokoyama
Reo Takaku
To control the spread of COVID-19, the national government of Japan abruptly started the closure of elementary schools on March 2, 2020, but preschools were exempted from this nationwide school closure. Taking advantage of this natural expe...