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Covid-19

Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?

Bruce Sacerdote
A new paper finds that media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, including vaccine development, tends to be more negative in the US than elsewhere....
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Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions

Marianne Bertrand
Seventy percent of Americans know someone who tested positive; one in five know someone who died from coronavirus, survey shows. For most of 2020, we followed...
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Covid-19, TikTok, and Milton Friedman: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2020

ProMarket writers
As 2020 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year. It should come as...
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Covid-19 Surges Drive Up Demand – and Pay – For Nurses Willing To Travel

Joshua Gottlieb
Covid-19 surges have led to spikes in demand for short-term nurses across the United States. A new paper finds nurses travel longer distances, and are more...
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Angus Deaton: “There’s Something Clearly Wrong With Our Corporate System, in Which Pharmaceutical Companies Are Allowed to Kill People for Money”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton outlined what he believes the incoming Biden administration should do: introduce price controls and...
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Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Good Health Policy Is Good Economic Policy

Flavio Toxvaerd
Many economists object to framing the response to the Covid-19 pandemic as choosing between health and wealth. Health protection and wealth creation both rely...
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How Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Demonstrates the Political Power of Firms

John M. Barrios
By timing the disclosure of the results of its vaccine trial, Pfizer could have influenced the 2020 presidential election. This is worrisome regardless of...
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The Covid-19 Vaccine is Nearly Here. The Question is: Will People Take It?

Barry Eichengreen
In addition to the challenges involved in manufacturing and distributing the new Covid vaccine from Pfizer, the reluctance of many Americans to take a...
Covid-19

Covid-19 Is Reducing Americans’ Confidence Across Institutions

Marianne Bertrand
Latest US household survey findings reveal that the Covid-19 crisis caused a sharp reduction in Americans’ confidence in institutions—whether or not they were directly...
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Defying Expectations, Bankruptcy Filings Are Down During the Covid-19 Crisis So Far

Jialan Wang
Historically, bankruptcy filings have closely tracked the business cycle and unemployment rates. However, a recent study found that this relationship has reversed during the...
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