As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, we are providing research, analysis and perspective in order to guide and inform the decisions being made by policymakers and business leaders.
Insights
A COVID Reckoning: American Households Have Big Bills Coming Due
Congress and many lenders let families skip payments on mortgages and other loans during the pandemic. But those bills haven’t disappeared.
Research
Government and Private Household Debt Relief During Covid-19
Susan Cherry
Erica Xuewei Jiang
Gregor Matvos
Tomasz Piskorski
Amit Seru
January192021
We follow a representative panel of US borrowers to study the suspension of household debt payments (debt forbearance) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March and…
Recent Perspectives from Our Faculty
Insights
October 19, 2021
Written
The Outlook for the Post-COVID Economy
There are plenty of reasons for optimism — and caution.
October 19, 2021
Written
How COVID Has Reshaped Work
Offices, commutes, and gigs have been disrupted — for now.
September 22, 2021
Written
A Proposal to Restore Stability to the Shaken U.S. Treasury Market
Darrell Duffie talks about an emerging consensus on major reforms to the world’s financial safe haven.
Publications
Publication Search
Journal Article
Confidence Intervals for Policy Evaluation in Adaptive Experiments
Vitor Hadad, David A. Hirshberg, Ruohan Zhan, Stefan Wager, Susan Athey
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
April2021
Vol. 118
Issue 15
Adaptive experiment designs can dramatically improve statistical efficiency in randomized trials, but they also complicate statistical inference.…
Working Paper
Government and Private Household Debt Relief During Covid-19
Susan Cherry, Erica Xuewei Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru
January2021
We follow a representative panel of US borrowers to study the suspension of household debt payments (debt forbearance) during the COVID-19…
In the Media
School Story & News Search
McKinsey & Company
October 06, 2021
Written
Forward Thinking on Economies beyond COVID-19 with Michael Spence
This podcast interview features Stanford GSB Dean, Emeritus, A. Michael Spence and his thoughts on post pandemic economic shifts and challenges.
Morningstar
September 14, 2021
Audio
Laura Carstensen: ‘I’m Suggesting We Change the Way We Work’
In this podcast, courtesy faculty member Laura L. Carstensen discusses the effects that emotional changes have on cognitive processing.