GhostalMedia t1_iyowons wrote on December 3, 2022 at 12:37 AM

I assume this paper finally got through peer review and is being properly published. The preliminary paper was floating around 2.5 years ago.

I’m curious to see something similar for COVID. So far it looks like the states that had looser restrictions have hit their pre pandemic employment rates sooner than states with stricter mandates. For example, Texas and Florida’s employment numbers rebounded faster than California. And places like NY still aren’t back to their pre-pandemic numbers.

Skyblacker t1_iyoxisf wrote on December 3, 2022 at 12:44 AM

And since there was no barrier between states that implemented restrictions and those that did not, covid casualties practically flattened out across the US. So in that context, the economic effect could have been larger than the health effect.