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January 2021, Video; "Each week five experts give their 8- minute pitch for a big question, important finding, promising policy solution, or research frontier for the next generation of work on inequality." Watch Complete Series Via Harvard Inequality and Social Policy on Youtube I - "This week: 6 Big Ideas. David J. Deming (Harvard Kennedy School) leads the…
| Nathaniel Hendren
September 21, 2020, Video: "The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data." Non-HKS Author Websites - Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren
| Nathaniel Hendren
June 17, 2020, Paper, "We build a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics on consumer spending, business revenues, employment rates, and other key indicators disaggregated by county, industry, and income group. Using these data, we study the mechanisms through which COVID-19 affected the economy by analyzing heterogeneity…
| Nathaniel Hendren
May 2020, Paper, "We build a new, publicly available economic tracker that measures economic activity at a highfrequency, granular level. Using anonymized data from several large businesses – credit card processors, payroll firms, job posting aggregators, and financial services firms – we construct statistics on consumer spending, employment rates, incomes, business revenues, job postings, and other key indicators. We report these statistics in…