This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled “Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and
Moving Forward,” which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6–8, 2020 …

High-income business service workers dominate the economies of major US cities, and their
spending supports many local consumer service jobs. As a result, business services' high …

We argue that occupations are a key explanatory variable for understanding the early
transmission of COVID-19 in New York City, finding that they play a larger role than other …

Tracking human activity in real time and at fine spatial scale is particularly valuable during
episodes such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we discuss the suitability of …

How do pandemics affect urban housing markets? This paper studies historical outbreaks of
the plague in 17th-century Amsterdam and cholera in 19th-century Paris to answer this …

Cities around the world are the epicentres of the coronavirus pandemic: both in the first
wave, as the disease spread from East Asia, and now, as many countries enter a third wave …

This paper revisits the debate around the link between population density and the severity of
COVID-19 spread in the USA. We do so by conducting an empirical analysis based on …

The large cities in the US are the most expensive places to live. Paradoxically, this cost is
disproportionately paid by workers who could work remotely, and live anywhere. The greater …

Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected economically
disadvantaged groups. This differential impact has numerous possible explanations, each …

ABSTRACT A key reason for the existence of cities are the externalities created when
people cluster together in close proximity. During Covid, such interactions came with health …