Insights / Research Brief•Jan 13, 2022
Selection in Surveys
When COVID-19 swept the world in early 2020 and closed or restricted business activity, researchers and policymakers scrambled to determine the virus’s economic impact on everything from employment, income, and childcare to business closures, commercial property, and work-from-home strategies. Policymakers needed answers fast to plan the most efficacious responses and direct limited resources to benefit those who needed it the most.
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COVID-19, Employment & Wages
Insights / Podcast episode•Jun 16, 2021
Vaccine Lotteries: Worth a Shot?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Steve Levitt, Jeff Severts
More than a dozen states have announced large lotteries to incentivize vaccinations. On this episode,...
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COVID-19
Insights / Podcast episode•Apr 07, 2021
WFH … Forever?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Steven J. Davis, Kate Lister
The pandemic forced many Americans into a mass social experiment: working from home (WFH). Now,...
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COVID-19, Employment & Wages
Insights / Podcast episode•Mar 25, 2021
Incentives and the Race to Vaccinate
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Joshua Gottlieb, David Pitrak
With COVID-19 variants proliferating, administering vaccines as quickly as possible is a key policy priority....
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Health care, COVID-19
Insights / Video
Watch: Michael Kremer World Bank Keynote Lecture: Conference on Vaccinating South Asia
On March 4, Michael Kremer presented his recent research during the South Asia Economic Policy...
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COVID-19
Insights / Podcast episode•Mar 12, 2021
Is the Future Cashless?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Fernando Alvarez, Raghuram Rajan
When COVID lockdowns started a year ago, the use of cash plummeted. But the pandemic...
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COVID-19
Insights / Podcast episode•Feb 25, 2021
The Surprising Results of Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Peter Ganong, Fiona Greig
In March 2020, the CARES Act expanded who was eligible for unemployment benefits, how much...
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COVID-19, Employment & Wages
Research Update · February 16, 2021
Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline
Austan Goolsbee, Chad Syverson
SUMMARY In Goolsbee and Syverson (2021), we used data from January through May 2020 to...
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COVID-19