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The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: How Increases in Fox News Viewership Reduced Compliance With Social Distancing Guidelines

Using zip-code level data on Fox News viewership and individual cellphone movement data, a recent study finds that increasing the local viewership...
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Antitrust and Competition

More and More Employers Are Spying on Workers Online. Federal Regulators Are Okay With It

Employers today have numerous tools at their disposal to monitor workers’ behavior and communications. Outdated federal regulations and an administration that prioritizes...
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Coronavirus

How Personal Experiences With Covid-19 Are Changing Americans’ Behaviors and Political Views

While strong divisions persist across party lines, personal experiences with Covid-19, such as loss of income, may affect views and preferences among...
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Coronavirus

Tailoring Lockdowns for Developing Countries

The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated livelihoods in developing nations, and coronavirus-related deaths are rising in Africa and South Asia at an alarming...
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Coronavirus

Can Covid-19 Erode Young Individuals’ Trust in Politics for Decades to Come?

A new study shows that exposure to an epidemic during one's “impressionable years” (18-25) has a persistent negative effect on trust in...
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Coronavirus

Lifting Lockdown Measures Won’t Bring Back Lost Jobs, New Study Suggests

A new paper examines data on local outbreaks in South Korea and finds that even in the absence of lockdowns, an increase...
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Bailout

What Comes Next for Economic Policies to Combat Covid-19? A Conversation Between Six Booth Faculty

As the Covid-19 crisis evolves from a temporary shock into what seems like a long-term catastrophe, six finance scholars from Chicago Booth—Douglas...
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Capitalisn't

Should Small Businesses Consider Bankruptcy? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on most businesses, but it has been especially hard on small businesses. Should those businesses...
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COMMENTARIES

The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Impatience. But America Will Need Patience in the 2020 Election

The proliferation of mail-in voting is likely to make knowing who won the election take much longer than Americans are used to....
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Coronavirus

Revenge of the Experts: Will Covid-19 Diminish Trust in Science and Scientists?

It is often argued that the Covid-19 pandemic will reverse the ongoing trend of diminishing trust in science and scientists. A new...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Monopoly Harms That Antitrust Keeps Missing

Hal Singer
In his new book Monopolized, journalist David Dayen tells the stories of individuals who have suffered at the hands of monopolists, showing...
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Special Interests Hide Behind Regulatory Myths

Casey B. Mulligan
Three myths about federal regulation help prevent much of the public, and many experts, from realizing how many regulations serve to promote...
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Coronavirus

The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: How Increases in Fox News Viewership Reduced Compliance With Social Distancing Guidelines

Jean-Pierre Dubé, Andrey Simonov, Szymon Sacher, Shirsho Biswas
Using zip-code level data on Fox News viewership and individual cellphone movement data, a recent study finds that increasing the local viewership...
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COMMENTARIES

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Eastman Kodak, Private Equity Hospitals, and America’s First Female Recession

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Antitrust and Competition

Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem

Lucas Kunce
Tech platforms like Facebook say we should protect, empower, and celebrate their concentrated power for the sake of America’s national security. But...
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Inequality

Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests 

Pauline Grosjean, Federico Masera, Hasin Yousaf
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that...
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Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech Is Officially Too Big to Manage

Shaoul Sussman
Last week’s Congressional hearing on Big Tech showed the CEOs of the four largest tech platforms unable to answer basic questions about...
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