The lockdown measures that were implemented in the spring of 2020 to stop the spread of
COVID‐19 are having a huge impact on economies in the UK and around the world. In …

Viruses are a major threat to human health, and—given that they spread through social
interactions—represent a costly externality. This article addresses three main questions:(i) …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of
substantial wealth shocks on players' own health and their children's health and …

The 1993 expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit created the first meaningful
separation in benefits between families containing two or more children and those with only …

This paper uses new data from the PSID to quantify the relative importance of negative
equity versus ability to pay, in driving mortgage defaults between 2009 and 2013. These …

The effects of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) public health policies on non-COVID-19-
related mortality are unclear. Here, using death registries based on 300 million Chinese …

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of
individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems …

We provide a life-cycle framework for comparing insurance and disincentive effects of
disability benefits. The risks that individuals face and the parameters of the Disability …

This paper investigates the impact of aggregate income shocks on infant mortality in India
and investigates likely mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature reports the …

Using short snapshots of income in intergenerational mobility estimation causes “lifecycle
bias” if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes. We use uniquely long series of …