Online Resources

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.