The debate continues about whether the patents on Covid-19 vaccines should be waived to allow low-income countries to produce doses for themselves. In current circumstances, such a course of action is likely to have little effect for good or ill, argue Michele Boldrin, David Levine, and Flavio Toxvaerd.
If chased by a bear – don’t stop running!
Medical authorities around the world have paused vaccination campaigns in response to fatal side-effects observed in a rare number of cases. They claimed to act out “an abundance of caution”. As experts in risk assessment and statistical analysis, Peter Reinhard Hansen and David Knudsen Levine argue that an abundance of caution really dictates the continuation of vaccinations with risk levels being continuously evaluated as the campaigns proceeds.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 19 April edition:
- Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota "Pico y Genero" Lockdown, Brian G. Knight, Maria Mercedes Ponce de Leon, and Ana Tribin.
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 12 April edition:
- Flattening the Curve: Pandemic-Induced Revaluation of Urban Real Estate, Arpit Gupta, Vrinda Mittal, Jonas Peeters, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
- Medicaid and Fiscal Federalism During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jeffrey Clemens, Benedic N. Ippolito, and Stan Veuger
- Correcting Perceived Social Distancing Norms to Combat COVID-19, James Allen IV, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV, Tanya Rosenblat, Dean Yang, and Hang Yu
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 29 March edition:
- The Incidence and Magnitude of the Health Costs of In-person Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Casey B. Mulligan
- Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Alternative Value Frameworks, Maddalena Ferranna, JP Sevilla, and David E. Bloom
- Bayesian Estimation of Epidemiological Models: Methods, Causality, and Policy Trade-Offs, Jonas E. Arias, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Juan Rubio Ramírez, and Minchul Shin
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 15 March edition:
- Why Did Bank Stocks Crash During COVID-19?, Viral V. Acharya, Robert F. Engle III, and Sascha Steffen
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Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 8 March edition:
- COVID-19 Has Strengthened the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Domestic Violence, Aaron Chalfin, Shooshan Danagoulian, and Monica Deza
- Does Mobility Explain Why Slums Were Hit Harder by COVID-19 in Mumbai, India?, Jaymee Sheng, Anup Malani, Ashish Goel, and Purushotham Botla
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 22 February edition:
- Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability, Amrita Ahuja, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Juan Camilo Castillo, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Kremer, Jean Nahrae Lee, Canice Prendergast, Christopher M. Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Joel Tan, and Witold Więcek
- Biases in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic, Ester Faia, Andreas Fuster, Vincenzo Pezone, and Basit Zafar
- Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work, Christopher T. Stanton and Pratyush Tiwari
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 1 February edition:
- COVID-19 and SMEs: A 2021 “Time Bomb”?, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Veronika Penciakova, and Nick Sander
- Sales Losses in the First Quarter of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from California Administrative Data, Robert W. Fairlie and Frank M. Fossen
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 25 January edition:
- COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality, Angus Deaton
- Housing Precarity & the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts of Utility Disconnection and Eviction Moratoria on Infections and Deaths Across US Counties, Kay Jowers, Christopher Timmins, Nrupen Bhavsar, Qihui Hu, and Julia Marshall
- The Economic Case for Global Vaccinations: An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks, Cem Çakmaklı, Selva Demiralp, Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Sevcan Yeşiltaş, and Muhammed A. Yıldırım
- The Impact of COVID-19 on US Firms, Nicholas Bloom, Robert S. Fletcher, and Ethan Yeh
- Longevity Perceptions and Saving Decisions during the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Experimental Investigation, Abigail Hurwitz, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Orly Sade
- COVID-19 Disruptions Disproportionately Affect Female Academics, Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov, and Jenna E. Stearns
- The Impact of the Non-essential Business Closure Policy on Covid-19 Infection Rates, Hummy Song, Ryan M. McKenna, Angela T. Chen, Guy David, and Aaron Smith-McLallen
- Keynesian Production Networks and the Covid-19 Crisis: A Simple Benchmark, David Baqaee and Emmanuel Farhi
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.