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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.

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 October edition:

• Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis, Marcella Alsan, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang
• Post COVID-19 Exit Strategies and Emerging Markets Economic Challenges, Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito
• How Did Depositors Respond to COVID-19?, Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Mingzhu Tai, and Wensi Xie

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 21 September edition:

• The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses: Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees, Georgij Alekseev, Safaa Amer, Manasa Gopal, Theresa Kuchler, JW Schneider, Johannes Stroebel, and Nils C. Wernerfelt
• Venture Capitalists and COVID-19, Paul Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev
• Pandemics, Vaccines and Corporate Earnings, Harrison Hong, Jeffrey Kubik, Neng Wang, Xiao Xu, and Jinqiang Yang
• Pandemics Through the Lens of Occupations, Anand Chopra, Michael B. Devereux, and Amartya Lahiri

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 September edition:

• Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Samuel Bazzi, Martin Fiszbein, and Mesay Gebresilasse
• Clean Air as an Experience Good in Urban China, Matthew E. Kahn, Weizeng Sun, and Siqi Zheng
• The Social Safety Net in the Wake of COVID-19, Marianne Bitler, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
• The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Alexander Ludwig, and Irina Popova
• Who’s In and Who’s Out under Workplace COVID Symptom Screening?, Krista J. Ruffini, Aaron Sojourner, and Abigail K. Wozniak
• The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S., Greg Kaplan, Benjamin Moll, and Giovanni L. Violante
• What Explains the COVID-19 Stock Market?, Josue Cox, Daniel L. Greenwald, and Sydney C. Ludvigson
• Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?, Francine D. Blau, Josefine Koebe, and Pamela A. Meyerhofer

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.