Urban resilience
Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s?
Research
Hunger for Stability Quells Appetite for Change: Results of the 2021 Education Next Survey of Public Opinion.
Calamities often disrupt the status quo. After the influenza pandemic that began during World War I and lasted two years, many Europeans turned to socialism, fascism, and Bolshevism.
Reducing Barriers to Engaged Fatherhood: Three Principles for Promoting Gender Equity in Parenting
The purpose of this concluding chapter is to offer scholars, policy makers, and organizational leaders a preliminary framework for diagnosing barriers to engaged fatherhood and for generating policies
The Spread and Consequences of COVID-19 for Cities: An Introduction
Disease is an old companion to urban life. The golden age of Periclean Athens was arguably ended by the plague that struck that polis in 430 B.C.E.; the Bubonic plague hit Constantinople in 541 C.E.
JUE Insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S.
Health Care Utilization and Spending in Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Importance Medicare Advantage (MA) has entailed a major expansion of government-financed, privately administered health insurance in the US.
A Simple Model of Social Distancing and Vaccination
This paper analyzes a simple model of infectious disease where the incentives for individuals to reduce risks through endogenous social distancing take straightforward cost-benefit form.
Association Between Social Media Use and Self-reported Symptoms of Depression in US Adults
Importance: Some studies suggest that social media use is associated with risk for depression, particularly among children and young adults. Objective: To characterize the association between self-re
Further Inspection: Integrating Housing Code Enforcement and Social Services to Improve Community Health
As a result of working inside homes, city housing inspectors witness hidden and serious threats to public health. However, systems to respond to the range of problems they encounter are lacking.
Create a COVID-19 commission
The 2019 Global Health Security Index concluded that although “no country is fully prepared for epidemics or pandemics,” the United States scored highest among all countries in pandemic preparedness.
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