Misinformation has been identified as a major contributor to various contentious
contemporary events ranging from elections and referenda to the response to the COVID-19 …

The goal of this piece is to survey the developing and rapidly growing literature on the
economic consequences of COVID‐19 and the governmental responses, and to synthetize …

Several countries have successfully reduced their COVID-19 infection rate early, while
others have been overwhelmed. The reasons for the differences are complex, but response …

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects
households' spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several …

Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States.
Using the geotracking data of 15 million smartphones per day, we found that US counties …

State and local governments imposed social distancing measures in March and April 2020
to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). These measures …

Context: Social distancing is an essential but economically painful measure to flatten the
curve of emergent infectious diseases. As the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 …

The reluctance of people to get vaccinated represents a fundamental challenge to
containing the spread of deadly infectious diseases,, including COVID-19. Identifying …