We build a publicly available database that tracks economic activity in the United States at a
granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly …

In this paper I discuss the increasingly prominent role of administrative micro data in
macroeconomics research. This type of data proved important for interpreting the causes …

We develop a framework to measure the welfare impact of inflationary shocks throughout the
distribution. The first-order impact of a shock is summarized by the induced movements in …

This paper documents the magnitude and distribution of US earnings changes during the
COVID-19 pandemic and how fiscal relief offset lost earnings. We build panels from …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) and a
supplemental COVID sample of NLSY97 respondents, we examined the associations …

We use over a decade of representative payroll data from Great Britain to study the nominal
wage changes of employees who stayed in the same job for at least one year. We show that …

We critically examine the hypothesis that COVID‐19 has ushered in a large reallocation
shock in the USA, beyond typical business cycle patterns. We take a broad perspective, and …

Governments worldwide have issued massive amounts of debt to inject fiscal stimulus
during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This paper analyzes fiscal responses to an epidemic, in …

In a general equilibrium model with online, entertainment and informal sectors employing
skill, unskilled, and capital, we show that Covid-19 could cause polarization pushing contact …

COVID-19 has adverse impacts on contact-intensive sectors, viz., manufacturing, tourism,
and the entertainment sector (ES). In a general equilibrium (GE) model with online …