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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 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.

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

From the 26 October edition:

• How do People Respond to Small Probability Events with Large, Negative Consequences?, Martin S. Eichenbaum, Miguel Godinho de Matos, Francisco Lima, Sergio Rebelo, and Mathias Trabandt
• The Pandemic Economic Crisis, Precautionary Behavior, and Mobility Constraints: An Application of the Dynamic Disequilibrium Model with Randomness, Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China, Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, Yingyue Quan, and Xiaobo Zhang
• The Long-Run Effects of the Affordable Care Act: A Pre-Committed Research Design Over the COVID-19 Recession and Recovery, Jeffrey Clemens, Drew McNichols, and Joseph J. Sabia
• Macroeconomic Outcomes and COVID-19: A Progress Report, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Charles I. Jones

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.

In their new paper, Miltiadis Makris and Flavio Toxvaerd consider the equilibrium and socially optimal amount of social distancing when pharmaceutical innovations such as vaccines and treatments are on the horizon.