Policy & Media

Policy Writing

Two Approaches to Saving the Economy: Micro-Level Effects of Covid-19 Lockdowns in Italy. With Zsombor Cseres-Gergely,  Julia Le Blanc and Luca Onorante. JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance, 2023/01, European Commission, 2023; also published in Economic Modelling

Produktivitätseffekte durch Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien. With Steffen Elstner, Christian Grimme and Robert Lehmann. ifo Schnelldienst 2022, 75, Nr. 12, 25-31. 

The Cost of Staying Open: Voluntary Social Distancing and Lockdowns in the US. With Adam Brzezinski and David Van Dijcke. Oxford Department of Economics Working Papers 910, September 30, 2020; Summary on VoxEU

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Government vs. Community Action Across the United States. With Adam Brzezinski, Guido Deiana and David Van Dijcke. Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers 7: 115-156 (2020). 

Media Coverage

Science skepticism appears to be an important predictor of non-compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place policies. By Eric W. Dolan. psypost.org, January 5, 2022.

Science Skepticism Made Lockdown Measures Less Effective. By Fabio Todesco. Bocconi Knowledge, November 11, 2021.

Science Skepticism Reduces Compliance with COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Policies. Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago. BFI Summary, June 10, 2021. 

Lockdown Measures Are Not the Only Things Keeping Us at Home. By Fabio Todesco. Bocconi Knowledge, May 5, 2020.