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This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).

From the 14 December edition:

• School’s Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using “Low-Tech” in a Pandemic, Noam Angrist, Peter Bergman, and Moitshepi Matsheng
• COVID and the Economic Importance of In-Person K-12 Schooling, David A. Green, Ali Karimirad, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, and Henry E. Siu
• Financial Fragility during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Robert L. Clark, Annamaria Lusardi, and Olivia S. Mitchell

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.

This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).

From the 7 December edition:

• Did COVID-19 Change Life Insurance Offerings?, Timothy F. Harris, Aaron Yelowitz, and Charles J. Courtemanche
• Stay-at-Home Orders in a Fiscal Union, Mario J. Crucini and Oscar O’Flaherty
• Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines, Michael Kremer, Jonathan D. Levin, and Christopher M. Snyder

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.

This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).

From the 30 November edition:

• Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Olivia S. Kim, Jonathan A. Parker, and Antoinette Schoar
• Mandated and Voluntary Social Distancing During The COVID-19 Epidemic: A Review, Sumedha Gupta, Kosali I. Simon, and Coady Wing

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.

This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).

From the 16 November edition:

• Optimal Vaccine Subsidies for Endemic and Epidemic Diseases, Matthew Goodkin-Gold, Michael Kremer, Christopher M. Snyder, and Heidi L. Williams
• How New Fed Corporate Bond Programs Dampened the Financial Accelerator in the Covid-19 Recession, Michael D. Bordo and John V. Duca
• Building an Epidemiology of Happiness, John F. Helliwell, David Gyarmati, Craig Joyce, and Heather Orpana
• Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market, Eliza Forsythe, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange, and David G. Wiczer
• Sizing up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis, Robin Greenwood, Benjamin Iverson, and David Thesmar
• Pandemics, Global Supply Chains, and Local Labor Demand: Evidence from 100 Million Posted Jobs in China, Hanming Fang, Chunmian Ge, Hanwei Huang, and Hongbin Li
• Maximize Utility subject to R≤1: A Simple Price-Theory Approach to Covid-19 Lockdown and Reopening Policy, Eric Budish

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.

This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).

From the 9 November edition:

• COVID-19 Surgical Abortion Restriction Did Not Reduce Visits to Abortion Clinics, Martin Andersen, Sylvia Bryan, and David Slusky 
• Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles, Amalia R. Miller, Carmit Segal, and Melissa K. Spencer

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.

While the Covid-19 pandemic has sparked widespread concern over the weakening of human rights protections, the crisis has also seen some unexpected rights victories. In her new paper EUI Professor of Public International Law, Neha Jain, traces these victories in the field of prisoners’ rights and argues that rights seeking strategies that were successful during the Covid-crisis may provide a blueprint for rights claims beyond the pandemic.