Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2021"

TL;DR: Examining the drivers of the economic slowdown using cellular phone records data on customer visits to more than 2.25 million individual businesses across 110 different industries suggests that legal shutdown orders account for only a modest share of the massive changes to consumer behavior.

TL;DR: Google Trends data is used to test whether COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns implemented in Europe and America led to changes in well-being related topic search-terms, and finds a substantial increase in the search intensity for boredom and a significant increase in searches for loneliness, worry and sadness.

TL;DR: In this article, a large majority of people are very reluctant to put others at risk for their personal benefit, and this measure of prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, measured in a separate and unrelated study with the same people.

TL;DR: Using mobile phone and survey data, it is shown that during the early phases of COVID-19, voluntary social distancing was greater in areas with higher civic capital and amongst individuals exhibiting a higher sense of civic duty.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study how social distancing can slow the spread of COVID-19 if citizens comply with it and internalize the cost of their mobility on others.

TL;DR: The authors studied the labour market shocks that individuals experienced in the first wave of the pandemic, and the steps they and their households took to cope with those shocks using new data from the first two waves of the Understanding Society COVID-19 Study collected in April and in May 2020 in the UK.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed whether economic preferences and pre-crisis social responsibility predict social compliance to the policy regulations and found that economic preferences are closely related to compliance with policies fighting the crisis.

TL;DR: In this paper, data from 25 large U.S. cities is assembled to estimate the impact of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime, showing a widespread immediate drop in both criminal incidents and arrests most heavily pronounced among drug crimes, theft, residential burglaries, and most violent crimes.

TL;DR: Exposure to previous epidemics affected trust in science and scientists significantly reduces trust in scientists and in the benefits of their work, and the evidence suggests that epidemic-induced distrust translates into lower compliance with health-related policies and lower rates of child vaccination.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of working from home (WFH) on work relations and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany was studied, and it was shown that WFH effectively shields employees from short-time work, firms from COVID19 distress and substantially reduces infection risks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of forced cohabitation and economic stress on intimate partner violence was disentangled using an online survey data set, and it was shown that the impact of economic consequences is twice as large as the impact on domestic violence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide evidence that the carbon emission trading system (ETS) has no effect on changing coal efficiency of regulated coal-fired power plants and that the output contraction in the treated plants is not due to their optimizing behavior but is likely driven by government decisions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measure the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using real-time data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board.

TL;DR: The authors construct a quantitative model of an economy hit by a pandemic and find that low-skill workers and self-employed always lose the most from both the pandemic itself and containment policies.

TL;DR: The authors found that rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties with greater total frontier experience (TFE) during the era of westward expansion, which can also undermine collective action, with potentially adverse social consequences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how electoral concerns help explain the observed differences in the response to the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic across different countries, and how incumbents who can run for reelection implement less stringent restrictions when the election is closer in time.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal impacts of student absences in middle and high school on state test scores, course grades, and educational attainment using a rich administrative dataset that tracks the date and class period of each absence.

TL;DR: In this article, the CARES Act's provision of $150 billion in aid to state and local governments reduced the fiscal pressures they faced and they laid off an additional 401,000 workers in April 2020.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used spatially disaggregated daily crime data for the City of Los Angeles to estimate the impact of ambient temperature on crime and how this relationship varies across neighborhoods, finding that crime rates are 1.72% and 1.90% higher when daily maximum temperature exceeds 75 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis of the short and medium-term effects of gender quotas in candidate lists using evidence from local elections in Spain, and they find that quotas increased the share of women in candidates lists by around 8 p.p.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale online survey of mothers whose firstborn children were aged 4 to 10 years was used to identify the causal effects of the school closure, exploiting the discontinuity in the probability of going to school at a certain threshold of age in months and conducted fuzzy regression discontinuity analyses.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impacts of scoring above the elite-tier cutoff on a student's access to elite colleges and wage outcomes after graduation, using the discontinuity around the cutoff score by employing hand-collected survey data.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the effect of political hierarchy on regional economic development using evidence from Chongqing's promotion to the level of a province in China and found that empowering local governments through increased political hierarchy promotes regional development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between migrant movements and the spread of COVID-19 using district-day-level data from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan (the 1st, 6th, and 7th largest sources of international migrant workers).

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the end of school summer breaks on SARS-CoV-2 cases in Germany was investigated and no evidence of a positive effect of school re-openings on case numbers was found.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find that mobility reduction following the first local COVID-19 case was stronger in Russian cities with higher ethnic fractionalization and xenophobia, and predict the timing of the first case using historical patterns of internal migration.

TL;DR: It is shown that including both parent health and income in models of intergenerational mobility increases the explanatory power of child outcomes and a monetary metric for health is constructed to combine income and health into a measure of welfare.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results from a field experiment on team diversity were presented, where individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass.

TL;DR: This article found that individual-level male wage and earnings risk is relatively high at the beginning and end of the working life, and for those in the lower and upper parts of the income distribution.

TL;DR: In this paper, a three-step factor-flows simulation-based approach is proposed to forecast the duration distribution of unemployment, with each hazard depending on an aggregate component as well as an individual's labor force history.