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Coronavirus is hitting larger cities harder. How should they respond?

This article was originally published by UChicago News. Read the story on their site here. Data from over 200 U.S. urban areas highlight need f...

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InSight Crime: What Does Coronavirus Mean for Criminal Governance in Latin America? Asst. Prof. Benjamin Lessing argues that criminal organizations are exerting governance to gain more social capital

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WSJ: Flatten the Curve of Economic Distress, Prof. Casey Mulligan argues that GDP losses understate the costs and sacrifices households and businesses are making

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Rolling Stone - The Payoff from the Pain: Trillions in Benefits Seen from Social Distancing to Slow Coronavirus

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NYT: China created a fail-safe system to track contagions. It failed, Prof. Dali Yang discusses local failures of early-warning system

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Washington Post: Moderate social distancing yields $8 trillion in economic benefits, study finds, article discusses new working paper from Prof. Michael Greenstone on social distancing

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Bloomberg: This Time the Numbers Show We Can’t Be Too Careful, article cites Prof. Michael Greenstone's economic analysis of social distancing

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Vox: The myth of authoritarian coronavirus supremacy, Prof. Dali Yang discusses China's efforts to downplay the pandemic

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Vox: A just and sustainable economic response to coronavirus, explained, Prof. Michael Greenstone discusses clean energy stimulus spending

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Washington Post: China’s claim of coronavirus victory in Wuhan brings hope, but experts worry it is premature, Prof. Dali Yang discusses balance between fighting coronavirus and killing the economy