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Spring/Summer 2020 Organizers: Mariacristina De Nardi, Arin Dube', Alessandra Fogli, Jonathan Skinner, and Wojciech Kopczuk

Friday, June 26, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:15 pm ET): Civil liberties and social trust [Webinar Recording]

• Marcella Alsan, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Yang: Civil Liberties in the Time of Health and Economic Crises

• Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian, Yiqing Xu, and Yang Yao: Making Democracy Work: Formal Institutions and Culture in Rural China

Friday, June 19, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:15 pm ET): What do we learn about Covid-19 using Diff-in-Diff? [Webinar Recording]

• Victor Chernozhukov, Hiroyuki Kasahara, and Paul Schrimpf: Causal Impact of Masks, Policies, Behavior on Early Covid-19 Pandemic in the U.S.

• Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Jan Marcus: Using Difference-in-Differences to Identify Causal Effects of COVID-19 Policies

Friday, June 12, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:20 pm ET): Covid-19 and high frequency household data [Webinar Recording]

• Natalie Cox, Diana Farrell, Peter Ganong, Fiona Grieg, Pascal Noel, Joseph Vavra, and Arlene Wong: The Initial Household Spending Response to Covid-19

• Asger Lau Andersen, Emil Toft Hansen, Niels Johannesen, and Adam Sheridan: Pandemic, Shutdown and Consumer Spending: Lessons from Scandinavian Policy Responses to COVID-19

• Vasco Carvalho, Juan Ramón García, Stephen Hansen, Alvaro Ortiz, Tomasa Rodrigo, José V. Rodríguez Mora, and Pep Ruiz: Tracking the COVID-19 crisis through the lens of 1.4 billion transactions

Friday, June 5, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:15 pm ET): Covid-19 and vaccines [Webinar Recording]

• Susan Athey and Michael Kremer, et al.: Incentive Design to Accelerate a Covid-19 Vaccine

• Matthew Goodkin-Gold, Michael Kremer, Christopher M. Snyder, Heidi Williams: Optimal Subsidies for Prevention of Infectious Disease

Friday, May 29, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:15 pm ET): The effects of Covid 19 on beliefs and business activity [Webinar Recording]

• Julian Kozlowski, Laura Veldkamp, and Venky Venkateswaran: Scarring Body and Mind: The Long-Term Belief-Scarring Effects of COVID-19

• Alexander Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoe Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton: How are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey

Friday, May 22, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:20 pm ET): COVID-19 and Labor Markets [Webinar Recording]

• Abigail Wozniak: Disparities and Mitigation Behavior during COVID-19

• Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, Christopher Rauh: Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys

• Annette Alstadsæter, Bernt Bratsberg, Gaute Eielsen, Wojciech Kopczuk, Simen Markussen, Oddbjorn Raaum, Knut Røed: The First Weeks of the Coronavirus Crisis: Who Got Hit, When and Why? Evidence from Norway

Friday, May 15, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:20 pm ET): Lessons from the 1918 flu [Webinar Recording]

• Robert J. Barro: Lessons from the Great Influenza Pandemic for the Coronavirus's Effects on Mortality and Economic Activity [Paper 1], [Paper 2], [Slides]

• François R. Velde: What Happened to the US Economy During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? A View Through High-Frequency Data

• Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, and Emil Verner: Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu

Friday, May 8, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:20 pm ET): SEIR models for Covid-19 [Webinar Recording]

• David Baqaee, Emmanuel Farhi, Michael Mina, and Jim Stock: Evaluating the Economics and Epidemiology of Strategies for Reopening the Economy [Slides]

• V. V. Chari, Rishabh Kirpalani, and Christopher Phelan: The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate versus Targeted Isolation Policies during Pandemics [Slides]

• Marina Azzimonti, Alessandra Fogli, Fabrizio Perri and Mark Ponder: Social Distance Policies in ECON-EPI Networks [Slides]

Friday, May 1, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:15 pm ET): Lessons from containment [Webinar Recording]

• Hanming Fang, Long Wang, and Yang Yang: Human Mobility Restrictions and the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China

• Solomon Hsiang et al: The Effect of Large-Scale Anti-Contagion Policies on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Friday, April 24, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:15 pm ET): How should allocate scarce resources to save lives and how much are lives worth? [Webinar Recording]

• Parag Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez, Utku Unver, and M. Bumin Yenmez: Triage Protocol Design for Ventilator Rationing in a Pandemic: Integrating Multiple Ethical Values through Reserves [Slides]

• Robert E. Hall, Charles I. Jones, and Peter J. Klenow: Trading Off Consumption and COVID-19 Deaths

Friday, April 17, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:15 pm ET): How does sick leave affect contageon and how does contageon affect kid's human capital? [Webinar Recording]

• Stefan Pichler, Katherine Wen, and Nicolas Robert Ziebarth: Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave [Slides]

• Meltem Daysal, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Hannes Schwandt: Disease Spread and Human Capital [Slides]

Friday, April 10, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3:15 pm ET): Labor market policies and unemployment [Webinar Recording]

• Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais: Subsidizing Labor Hoarding in Recessions: The Employment & Welfare Effects of Short Time Work [Slides]

• Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Aaron Sojourner: Predicting Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims Using Google Trends [Slides]

Monday, April 6, 2020 (Time: 1 pm - 2:15 pm ET): Covid-19 SEIR models [Webinar Recording]

• Martin S. Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo, and Mathias Trabandt: The Macroeconomics of Epidemics [Slides]

• David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, and Simon Mongey: An SEIR Infectious Disease Model with Testing and Conditional Quarantine [Slides]

Friday, March 27, 2020 (Time: 2 pm - 3 pm, ET): Covid-19 SEIR models

• • Andrew Atkeson: What Will Be the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in the US? Rough Estimates of Disease Scenarios [Slides]

  • Fernando Alvarez, David Argente, and Francesco Lippi: A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown [Slides]