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Maria Polyakova & colleagues show that while COVID deaths last spring were concentrated in New York & New Jersey, the economic ravages from the pandemic extended nationwide [...]

SIEPR Sr Fellow Laurence Baker & four other ��ɫ��Ӱ professors are among the 90 regular members & 10 international members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine.

Senior Fellow Jay Bhattacharya is tapped for his insights in the wake of Trump’s diagnosis of COVID-19.

A new study by Senior Fellow Pascaline Dupas highlights an unintended consequence of the COVID-19 lockdown in India — a 25% rise in mortality among dialysis patients.

A controversial arm of the Affordable Care Act reduced strokes, heart disease, & other ailments among older, low-income patients, according to a study by Sr Fellow M. Kate Bundorf.

"Anyone can be infected with the virus, but there is a thousandfold difference in the risk of death between the young and the old," SIEPR's Jay Bhattacharya writes in this op-ed.

Shoshana Vasserman & other researchers have developed a new computer model that uses health & economic data to inform policy decisions on reopening strategies during the pandemic.

“Talking loud, singing and shouting approximate the risk of coughing and sneezing. Tiny particles can get in the air and infect you,” says Dr. Mark R. Cullen.

“A key next step, I think, is finding out explicitly how close you need to be to a well for it to cause harm,” says SIEPR Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke.

For a randomized controlled trial aimed at fighting the pandemic and protecting public health, Abhijit Banerjee collaborated with other researchers, including Arun Chandrasekhar.

“It is incumbent on us as scientists to convey to the American public what we’re finding and seeing very, very clearly and loudly,” said SIEPR Senior Fellow Jay Bhattacharya [...]

Employees have no legal recourse against colleagues who they feel aren’t doing enough—or going overboard—to prevent the spread of COVID-19, said SIEPR Senior Fellow Alison Morantz.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Mark Cullen, founding director of the Center for Population Health Sciences at ��ɫ��Ӱ comments on airborne transmission of COVID-19.

A report by David Grusky found that from 2008 and 2016, the mortality rates of people between the ages of 25 and 34 increased 20%, largely because of suicides and drug overdoses.

Co-sponsored by SIEPR and the ��ɫ��Ӱ Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.

Grant Miller, a health economics expert, found that as states granted the vote to women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, those states invested more in sanitation [...]

A two-year study done by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off.

"To simply return to the prepandemic health care system during a presidential election year would be a mistake. This is a time to think more boldly about the future of the US[...]"

A report coauthored by Mark Duggan—Director and Senior Fellow of SIEPR—found that mortality rates for people from ages 25 to 34 had risen by more than 20 percent since 2008.

"Companies developing Covid-19 treatments run the risk of acting too quickly," warns SIEPR Senior Fellow Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics at the ��ɫ��Ӱ GSB.