Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2020"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present real-time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the immediate labor market impacts of Covid-19 differ considerably across countries.

TL;DR: The feasibility of working at home for all occupations is classified and it is found that 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home, with significant variation across cities and industries.

TL;DR: New survey evidence is presented of significant gaps at the individual level between Republicans and Democrats in self-reported social distancing, beliefs about personal COVID risk, and beliefs about the future severity of the pandemic.

TL;DR: This work considers several economic uncertainty indicators for the US and UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that all indicators show huge uncertainty jumps in reaction to the pandemic and its economic fallout, and most indicators reach their highest values on record.

TL;DR: In this paper, the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was quantified.

TL;DR: It is shown that the economic and health related shocks induced by COVID-19 vary systematically by socioeconomic factors and constitute key mediators in explaining the large (and heterogeneous) effects of the pandemic.

TL;DR: It is found that high-trust regions decrease their mobility related to non-necessary activities significantly more than low- Trust regions, and the efficiency of policy stringency in terms of mobility reduction significantly increases with trust.

TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic increased domestic violence calls by 7.5% during March through May of 2020, with effects concentrated during the first five weeks after social distancing began.

TL;DR: It is found that job vacancies collapsed in the second half of March, and this set of facts suggests the economic collapse was not caused solely by the stay-at-home orders, and is therefore unlikely to be undone simply by lifting them.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined an unexplored consequence of COVID-19 school closures: the broken link between child maltreatment victims and the number one source of reported maltreatment allegations-school personnel.

TL;DR: Findings of disproportionate impacts on minority unemployment raise important concerns regarding lost earnings and wealth, and longer-term consequences of the pandemic on racial inequality in the United States.

TL;DR: High frequency internet search data is used to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, finding that areas of the country with higher income, better internet access and fewer rural schools saw substantially larger increases in search intensity.

TL;DR: The authors used high-frequency Google search data, combined with data on the announcement dates of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in U.S. states, to disentangle the short-run direct impacts of multiple different state-level NPIs in an event study framework.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that information frictions and the “first-come, first-served” design of the PPP program skewed its resources towards larger firms and may have permanently reduced its effectiveness, as businesses that received aid report fewer layoffs, higher employment, and improved expectations about the future.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate a new approach to estimate preferences for nonmarket goods using social media data, combining more than a billion Twitter updates with natural language processing algorithms to construct a rich panel dataset of expressed sentiment for the United States and six other English-speaking countries around the world.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between social preferences and political attitudes and found that selfish subjects are the extremists on the one side of the political spectrum, while altruistic and maximin subjects sit at the opposite end of the spectrum, characterized by benevolence in the domain of advantageous inequality.

TL;DR: The presence of the FPUC has important implications for the incidence of the recession and reverses income patterns which would have otherwise arisen across income levels, occupations, and industries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an informational theory of autocracy, which states that dictators survive not by means of force or ideology but because they convince the public that they are competent, and if citizens conclude that the leader is incompetent, they overthrow him.

TL;DR: Using household panel data, it is found that nepotism exists but has only limited mistargeting consequences and that chiefs target households with higher returns to farm inputs, generating an allocation that is more productively efficient than what could be achieved through strict poverty- targeting.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore whether energy cost information asymmetries exist between landlords and tenants by exploiting variation in which party pays for energy, and find evidence that tenants are uninformed about energy costs.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors examined how informal patron-client networks within the ruling Communist Party shape the distribution of intergovernmental transfers in China, a major one-party regime, and found that provincial leaders allocate significantly more transfers to localities governed by officials who are part of their networks.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that a single mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in the number of firearm bills introduced within a state in the year after a mass shooting and that this effect increases with the extent of media coverage, and when looking at bills that were actually enacted into law, the impact of mass shootings depends on the party in power.

TL;DR: This article conducted a randomized online experiment during the 2017 French presidential election campaign, where subgroups of French voters were subjected to alternative facts by the extreme right candidate, Marine Le Pen, and/or corresponding facts about the European refugee crisis from official sources.

TL;DR: This paper used a large, representative sample of the US population to elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration, and then provided respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart, and find that inequality has increased across cohorts, especially for boys and at the bottom of the distribution.

TL;DR: This paper examined how individuals adjusted spending and saving in response to a temporary drop in liquidity due to the 2013 U.S. government shutdown and found that many individuals had low liquid assets and used multiple sources of short-term liquidity to smooth consumption.

TL;DR: This article found that an additional $100, or a 3% increase in the average annual EITC exposure between birth and age 18 increases the likelihood of reporting very good or excellent health by 2.6% and decreases the likelihood being obese by 4.1% between ages 22 and 27.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) on cross-border tax evasion using a difference-in-difference research design by considering a period of four years (2014-2017).

TL;DR: This paper used the discontinuity in house size generated by Chinese housing policies to identify the effect of housing wealth on labor supply and found that females, young generation and households with high repayment capacity were more responsive to gains in housing wealth.

TL;DR: A tractable incomplete-market model with endogenous unemployment risk, sticky prices, real wage rigidity and a fiscal side is calibrated to Euro Area countries and used to analyze the macroeconomic effects of lockdown policies, which produces large and persistent negative effects on output, unemployment and welfare.