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Study: the Covid-19 Eviction Moratoriums Helped Reduce Food Insecurity and Mental Stress

Nitzan Tzur Ilan
A new study investigates the impact of 2020 Covid-19 rental eviction moratoria on the wellbeing of US households, finding that eviction moratoria...
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Governments Were Forced to Restrict Civil Liberties to Deal With Covid-19. More Flexible Constitutions Could Prevent That From Becoming the New Normal

Gabriele Gratton, Barton Lee
A new paper argues that exploitation of gaps within democratic constitutions during emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, has the potential to...
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Challenges to Sound Global Governance for Health

Lawrence O. Gostin
In an excerpt from his new book, Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future, Lawrence O. Gostin examines the challenges and...
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The Digital Divide During Epidemics: Who Benefits From New Financial Technologies?

Orkun Saka, Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy
A new paper finds that exposure to an epidemic in the current year significantly increases the likelihood that an individual completes financial...
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Commentary

How Twitter Weakened India’s Information Ecosystem

Prateek Raj
India’s Covid-19 crisis is a reminder that Indian democracy is also in a crisis, partly due to an information ecosystem where facts...
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Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare

Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov, Jenna Stearns
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research...
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The Unequal Toll of Covid-19

Neha Deopa, Piergiuseppe Fortunato
A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done...
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One Year Into the Pandemic: Who Maintains Social Distancing and Who Doesn’t

Tim Besley, Sacha Dray
A new study measures factors associated with the adoption of social distancing across America and finds that widespread adoption of social distancing...
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Lack of Trust in Doctors Undermines Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy

Fabio da Silva Soares
Recent data from the Financial Trust Index (FTI) reveals that Americans are not as willing to be vaccinated as the government expects....
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Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?

Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal, Molly Cook
A new paper finds that media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, including vaccine development, tends to be more negative in the US...
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Antitrust and Competition

How to Make the Market for Real Estate Agents More Competitive

Sophia Gilbukh, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Michael Sinkinson
Delinking buyer and seller commissions will make markets for real estate agent services more competitive, allowing buyers and sellers to negotiate commissions...
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Corporate Governance

Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation: Covid, the Retail Crisis, and REITs

Mark Pilkington
In an excerpt from his new book Retail Recovery, retail expert and author Mark Pilkington explores the impact of the sector's decline...
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Corporate Governance

Addressing Climate Change Must Begin with Verifiable Carbon Accounting

Robert Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna
Robert Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna propose a new approach for verifiable accounting on indirect corporate emissions that would apply to all corporations,...
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Antitrust and Competition

The FTC Was Correct to Withdraw the Vertical Merger Guidelines

Steven Salop
The 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines, now withdrawn by the FTC, did not represent sound merger policy, argues Steven Salop; rather, they were...
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Economic History Series

The Chicago Planning Program and the Interdisciplinary Tradition of the Chicago School

Daniel Kuehn
The Chicago Planning Program, an interdisciplinary program that operated at the University of Chicago between 1947 and 1956, is an often-neglected part...
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Antitrust and Competition

Why a “Whole-of-Government” Approach is the Solution to Antitrust’s Current Labor Problem

Hiba Hafiz
For the majority of America’s regulatory history, the problem of employer monopsony was understood as a competition policy issue that required direct...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Law’s Unwritten Rules of Unfair Competition

Sandeep Vaheesan
Does the Sherman Act actually “protect competition, not competitors”? An examination of the case law reveals a more nuanced picture, in which...
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