Online Resources
Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford), Coronavirus Government Response Tracker.
European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, COVID-19.
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
Our World in Data, Coronavirus Pandemic.
The Lancet, COVID-19 resource centre.
VOX - COVID-19.
World Health Organization (WHO), Coronavirus disease.
Papers on COVID-19 and Previous Pandemics
Acemoglu et al (2020) A Multi-Risk SIR Model with Optimally Targeted Lockdown. NBER Working Paper No. 27102.
Adda (2016) Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases: Evidence from High Frequency Data. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Allcot et al (2020) Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic. NBER Working Paper No. 26946.
Alvarez et al. (2020) A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown. NBER Working Paper No. 26981.
Barro (2020) Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Mortality in U.S. Cities during the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919. NBER Working Paper No. 27049.
Baccini and Brodeur (2020) Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. IZA DP 13137.
Benzell et al (2020) Rationing Social Contact During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Transmission Risk and Social Benefits of US Locations. SSRN 3579678.
Chang and Velasco (2020) Economic Policy Incentives to Preserve Lives and Livelihoods. NBER Working Paper No. 27020.
Chudik et al (2020) Voluntary and Mandatory Social Distancing: Evidence on COVID-19 Exposure Rates from Chinese Provinces and Selected Countries. NBER Working Paper No. 27039.
Clay et al. (2019) What explains cross-city variation in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. cities. Economics and Human Biology.
Correira et al. (2020) Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu. SSRN 3561560.
Cui et al. (2020) Covid-19, Shelter-In Place Strategies and Tipping. NBER Working Paper No. 27124
Dhaval et al. (2020) When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption . NBER Working Paper No. 27091.
Dowd et al (2020) Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19. PNAS.
Eichenbaum et al. (2020) The Macroeconomics of Testing and Quarantining. NBER Working Paper No. 27104
Fangn and Yang (2020) Human Mobility Restrictions and the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China. NBER Working Paper No. 26906.
Farboodi et al. (2020) Internal and External Effects of Social Distancing in a Pandemic. SSRN 3580490.
Fenichel (2013) Economic considerations for social distancing and behavioral based policies during an epidemic. Journal of Health Economics.
Fernandez-Villaverde and Jones (2020) Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities. NBER Working Paper No. 27128
Fetzer et al. (2020 )Global Behaviors and Perceptions at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. NBER Working Paper No. 27082.
Fowler et al (2020) The effect of stay-at-home orders on COVID-19 infections in the United States. arXiv WP.
Friedson et al (2020) Did California's Shelter-In-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects. IZA DP. 13160.
Guerrieri et al. (2020) Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?. NBER Working Paper No. 26918.
Gupta et al. (2020) Tracking Public and Private Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic: Evidence from State and Local Government Actions. NBER Working Paper No. 27027.
Homburg (2020) Effectiveness of Corona Lockdowns: Evidence for a Number of Countries. Discussion Paper No. 671.
Lin and Meissner (2020) Health vs. Wealth? Public Health Policies and the Economy During Covid-19. NBER Working Paper No. 27099.
Rampini (2020) Sequential Lifting of COVID-19 Interventions with Population Heterogeneity. NBER Working Paper No. 27063.
Rosce and Brunori (2020) Searching for the Peak Google Trends and the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy. SSRN 3569909.
Sears et al (2020) Are We #StayingHome to Flatten the Curve?. SSRN 3569791.
Zhang et al. (2020) Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Science.