Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Labor Unions and Covid-19: Beyond the Workplace
Published 2022Person-to-person transmission in the workplace is thought to play a crucial role in the spread of COVID-19. Labor unions are among the largest institutions in the United States, and their role in regulating employee-employer ...Preprint -
Effect of lockdown on mental health in Australia: evidence from a natural experiment analysing a longitudinal probability sample survey
Published 2022Background: Many studies have examined population mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic but have been unable to isolate the direct effect of lockdowns. The aim of this study was to examine changes in the mental health ...Article -
When is discretionary fiscal policy effective?
Published 2021We investigate the effects of discretionary changes in government spending and taxes using a medium-scale nonlinear vector autoregressive model with policy shocks identified via sign restrictions. Tax cuts and spending ...Article -
Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Phone-survey evidence from rural and urban Myanmar in 2020
Published 2022Myanmar first experienced the COVID-19 crisis as a relatively brief economic shock in early 2020, before the economy was later engulfed by a prolonged surge in COVID-19 cases from September 2020 onwards. To analyze poverty ...Article -
Zero-COVID Policies: Melbourne's 112-Day Hard Lockdown Experiment Harmed Mostly Mothers
Published 2022Lockdowns were used worldwide to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2. We demonstrate that the 112-day hard lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, the longest among OECD jurisdictions, exclusively penalized families with young ...Preprint