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Commentary
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Oct 12, 2020
We’re public health experts. We need to do a better job of talking to conservatives.
Washington Post; Lindsey J. Leininger, Harold Pollack
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Feb 25, 2021
The Surprising Results of Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
Eduardo Porter
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Tess Vigeland
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Peter Ganong
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Fiona Greig
In March 2020, the CARES Act expanded who was eligible for unemployment benefits, how much...
Topics: COVID-19, Employment & Wages
Research Update · February 16, 2021
Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline
Austan Goolsbee
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Chad Syverson
SUMMARY In Goolsbee and Syverson (2021), we used data from January through May 2020 to...
Topics: COVID-19
Finding
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Feb 04, 2021
Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data: A Real-Time Application to COVID-19
Victor Couture
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Jonathan Dingel
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Allison Green
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Jessie Handbury
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Kevin R. Williams
The authors develop and make publicly available a location exposure index that summarizes county-to-county movements, and a device exposure index that quantifies social contact within venues.
Topics: COVID-19
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