COVID-19

Center for Spatial Data Science’s Marynia Kolak leads team in mapping small areas hit hard by COVID-19

COVID-19

How the United States can still win the coronavirus pandemic: Political Science Assoc. Prof. Paul Poast says the economic turmoil brought by COVID-19 will reinforce the dollar’s dominance in Foreign Policy

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Understanding the other side of the COVID ledger: Crain’s editorial highlights Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics Prof. Michael Greenstone’s research into the economic benefits of social distancing

Announcements COVID-19

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...

In the News COVID-19 Political Science

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

In the News COVID-19 Economics

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

In the News COVID-19 Economics

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

In the News COVID-19 Political Science

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

In the News COVID-19 Economics

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

In the News COVID-19 Economics

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