Using data from the US Postal Service and Zillow, we quantify the effect of Covid-19 on
migration patterns and real estate markets in US cities. We find three key results. First, within …

We show that the COVID-19 pandemic brought house price and rent declines in city centers,
and price and rent increases away from the center, thereby flattening the bid-rent curve in …

How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data
across five US cities, we estimate that total cases per capita decrease by 19% for every ten …

The unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak has significantly influenced our daily life, and
COVID-19's spread is inevitably associated with human mobility. Given the pandemic's …

We use aggregated data from Facebook to show that COVID-19 is more likely to spread
between regions with stronger social network connections. Areas with more social ties to two …

High-income business service workers dominate the economies of major US cities, and their
spending supports many local consumer service jobs. As a result, business services' high …

This paper examines the determinants of social distancing during the shutdown phase of the
COVID-19 epidemic. We classify state and local government actions, and we study multiple …

In this paper I discuss the increasingly prominent role of administrative micro data in
macroeconomics research. This type of data proved important for interpreting the causes …

We document the magnitudes of and mechanisms behind socioeconomic differences in
travel behavior during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We focus on King County, Washington, one …

We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting
patterns within large US cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with …