Real-time price indices: Inflation spike and falling product variety during the Great Lockdown [0.03%]
实时价格指数：“大封锁”时期的通货膨胀和产品种类下降问题
Xavier Jaravel,Martin O&#x;Connell
Xavier Jaravel
We characterize inflation dynamics during the Great Lockdown using scanner data covering millions of transactions for fast-moving consumer goods in the United Kingdom. We show that there was a significant and widespread spike in inflation. ...
Kenneth A Couch,Robert W Fairlie,Huanan Xu
Kenneth A Couch
This paper provides early evidence of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on minority unemployment in the United States. In the first month following March adoptions of social distancing measures by states, unemployment rose to 14.5% but a...
Dave Altig,Scott Baker,Jose Maria Barrero et al.
Dave Altig et al.
We consider several economic uncertainty indicators for the US and UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based policy uncertainty, Twitter chatter about economic uncertainty, subjective uncer...
The impact of COVID-19 on student experiences and expectations: Evidence from a survey [0.03%]
COVID-19对学生体验和期望的影响：来自一项调查的证据
Esteban M Aucejo,Jacob French,Maria Paola Ugalde Araya et al.
Esteban M Aucejo et al.
In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education, we surveyed approximately 1500 students at one of the largest public institutions in the United States using an instrument designed to recover the causal impact...
Stéphane Auray,Aurélien Eyquem
Stéphane Auray
A tractable incomplete-market model with endogenous unemployment risk, sticky prices, real wage rigidity and a fiscal side is calibrated to Euro Area countries and used to analyze the macroeconomic effects of lockdown policies. Modeling the...
Suffering in silence: How COVID-19 school closures inhibit the reporting of child maltreatment [0.03%]
默默忍受：COVID-19学校关闭如何妨碍对儿童虐待的报告
E Jason Baron,Ezra G Goldstein,Cullen T Wallace
E Jason Baron
To combat the spread of COVID-19, many primary and secondary schools in the United States canceled classes and moved instruction online. This study examines an unexplored consequence of COVID-19 school closures: the broken link between chil...
John Eric Humphries,Christopher A Neilson,Gabriel Ulyssea
John Eric Humphries
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) extended 669 billion dollars of forgivable loans in an unprecedented effort to support small businesses affected by the COVID-19 crisis. This paper provides evidence that information frictions and the "...
Toward an understanding of the development of time preferences: Evidence from field experiments [0.03%]
理解时间偏好发展的途径：来自现场实验的证据
James Andreoni,Michael A Kuhn,John A List et al.
James Andreoni et al.
Time preferences have been correlated with a range of life outcomes, yet little is known about their early development. We conduct a field experiment to elicit time preferences of over 1,200 children ages 3-12, who make several intertempora...
Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic [0.03%]
两极分化与公共卫生：冠状病毒大流行期间社会保持距离的政治差异
Hunt Allcott,Levi Boxell,Jacob Conway et al.
Hunt Allcott et al.
We study partisan differences in Americans' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Political leaders and media outlets on the right and left have sent divergent messages about the severity of the crisis, which could impact the extent to which R...