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  • Senior Fellow Ed Lazear discusses the need for liquidity, relief for small businesses, and potential recovery rate.

    March 26, 2020

  • "There is no reason that the federal government should spend upward of $50 billion to bail out airlines [...]"

    March 26, 2020

  • "We don’t know the true infection rate in the U.S. Antibody testing of representative samples to measure disease prevalence (including the recovered) is crucial."

    March 24, 2020

  • “This is not a silver lining. The pandemic is incredibly destructive...But it shows that when we really disrupt the economy and shut things down, we emit a lot less pollution[...]"

    March 23, 2020

  • "Even big companies may face limits as to what they can or are willing to provide," says Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

    March 22, 2020

  • What consequences will the novel coronavirus have on our future—and is there a silver lining? Senior Fellows Marshall Burke and Nicholas Bloom join Freakonomics to discuss.

    March 19, 2020

  • “The country is being affected by a sudden shock that is preventing people from going to work and getting paid [...]"

    March 18, 2020

  • "The reductions in air pollution in China [...] likely saved 20 times more lives in China than have currently been lost due to infection with the virus in that country."

    March 17, 2020

  • China’s coronavirus lockdown likely saved tens of thousands of lives by slashing air pollution from factories and vehicles, according to new analysis by Marshall Burke.

    March 16, 2020

  • Senior Fellow John Taylor discusses the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy amid the coronavirus outbreak.

    March 13, 2020

  • It's hard to know the mortality rate of COVID-19, since we don't yet have a test that can tell who has had the virus and recovered without knowing they were infected [...]

    March 09, 2020

  • A study led by Faculty Fellow Maya Rossin-Slater has found that local exposure to fatal school shootings increases antidepressant use among youths.

    December 16, 2019

  • “Our results provide new estimates of the health costs of climate change and identify environmental drivers of the black-white maternal health gap,” says Maya Rossin-Slater.

    October 21, 2019

  • Health care is a complicated issue. Sr fellow & emeritus professor of economics Victor Fuchs clarifies some common fallacies to help voters understand the issue better [...]

    September 12, 2019

  • Older, low-income Americans tend to be healthier if they live in more affluent areas of the country, according to research by faculty fellow Maria Polyakova.

    September 09, 2019