S7: Reopening After Covid: A Replication and Extension

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SESSION 7: Reopening After Covid: A Replication and Extension of Chetty et al. (2020) "The Economic Impacts of COVID-19."

Presentation by Annais Gangolf, Devansh Goyal, and Samuel Ross (Haverford College)

November 10, 2022 at 11am Bogotá/ 12am Pennsylvania, USA/ 5pm Lisbon/ 6pm Berlin/ 9:30pm New Dehli

ABSTRACT
"We replicate Section IV.A of Chetty et al. (2020), which investigates the response of consumer spending, business reopenings, and employment to state reopening policies. We employ the dataset they construct in their paper that uses micro-level data from private firms. They have not published replication materials, so we implemented their methods ourselves in Stata. We were unable to exactly reproduce Chetty et al.’s results, but our conclusions are broadly consistent with theirs. Going forward, we plan to extend their paper by applying their methodology to a broader set of reopening policies."
A working paper is available here.

Chetty, R., Friedman, J.N., Hendren, N., Stepner, M., and the Opportunity Insights Team (2020). "The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data." NBER Working Paper 27431. DOI: 10.3386/w27431

The presentation will be live — no pre-recorded video!
For discussion please use this session's page on the ReplicationWiki.

SHORT BIOS
The authors are undergraduates at Haverford College
Annais Gangolf (Research Assistant & Impact Capital Sourcing Project Student); Devansh Goyal (Peer Tutor and Incoming Summer Analyst at Cornerstone Research); Samuel Ross (Economics Research Assistant, Professor Carola Binder)