Covid-19
Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research time that...
The Unequal Toll of Covid-19
A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done so equally....
One Year Into the Pandemic: Who Maintains Social Distancing and Who Doesn’t
A new study measures factors associated with the adoption of social distancing across America and finds that widespread adoption of social distancing measures is...
Lack of Trust in Doctors Undermines Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy
Recent data from the Financial Trust Index (FTI) reveals that Americans are not as willing to be vaccinated as the government expects. Trusting doctors...
Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?
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....
Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions
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...
Covid-19 Surges Drive Up Demand – and Pay – For Nurses Willing To Travel
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...
Angus Deaton: “There’s Something Clearly Wrong With Our Corporate System, in Which Pharmaceutical Companies Are Allowed to Kill People for Money”
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...
Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Good Health Policy Is Good Economic Policy
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...
How Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Demonstrates the Political Power of Firms
By timing the disclosure of the results of its vaccine trial, Pfizer could have influenced the 2020 presidential election. This is worrisome regardless of...
