Insights and Analysis on the COVID-19 Pandemic

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.

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March 19, 2021
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Twelve Months Later: Our 10 Top Stories About Working Through the Pandemic
An interview with Zoom’s CEO. A crisis-leadership playbook. A podcast on virtual presentations. And a word on how to close shop gracefully.
February 22, 2021
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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.
December 03, 2020
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Zombies on the Rise
A decade of binge borrowing has turned many corporations into the walking dead, Stanford finance experts say.
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Publications

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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…

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In the Media

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Business Insider

April 13, 2021
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America’s Best Work-from-Home Expert Is Bracing For Turmoil

Courtesy faculty member Nicholas A. Bloom shares the journey of his research on remote work and how his findings have informed leading corporations.

The Orange County Register

April 11, 2021
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Begins to Fade, but Stubborn Resistance Remains among Evangelicals

This article features research and commentary by courtesy faculty member Kevin Schulman ​on how to best promote COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S.
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