Health
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Senior Fellow Ed Lazear discusses the need for liquidity, relief for small businesses, and potential recovery rate.
March 26, 2020
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"There is no reason that the federal government should spend upward of $50 billion to bail out airlines [...]"
March 26, 2020
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Following the economic impact of COVID-19
As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, experts are providing analysis, research & ideas meant to inform the decisions being made today [...]
March 25, 2020
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"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
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“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
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"Even big companies may face limits as to what they can or are willing to provide," says Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.
March 22, 2020
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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
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“The country is being affected by a sudden shock that is preventing people from going to work and getting paid [...]"
March 18, 2020
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"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
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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
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Senior Fellow John Taylor discusses the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy amid the coronavirus outbreak.
March 13, 2020
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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
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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
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Senior Fellow Emeritus Victor Fuchs discusses managed care and managed competition, as well as their implications.
November 11, 2019
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“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
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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
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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
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Summit highlights trade, tech and THC
As ominous as some of the topics were at the Economic Summit, they are among some of today’s most pressing policy questions.
March 12, 2019