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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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…

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Idea Stories Opensearch
October 19, 2021
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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
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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.
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Government and Private Household Debt Relief During Covid-19

Susan Cherry, Erica Xuewei Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity September2021

We follow a representative panel of U.S. borrowers to study the suspension of household debt payments (debt forbearance) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Between March and October of 2020, loans worth $2 trillion entered forbearance. On average,…

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. For example, it is now well known that the sample mean is biased in adaptive trials. Inferential…

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McKinsey & Company

October 06, 2021
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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
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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.
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