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| Christopher Avery
June 18, 2020, Paper, "The label of “essential worker” reflects society’s needs but does not mean that society has compensated those workers for additional risks incurred on the job during the current pandemic. When an essential worker contracts severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), they pose a risk to the other members of their household. These members may be elderly or lack health insurance, and the household may have…
| Christopher Avery
April 2020, Paper. "This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic that have been influential in recent policy decisions. There is tremendous opportunity for social scientists to advance the relevant literature as new and better data becomes available to bolster economic outcomes and save lives."
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| Richard Zeckhauser | Christopher Avery
The “CAPS” Prediction System and Stock Market Returns. Christopher Avery, Richard Zeckhauser, 2015, Paper. "We study approximately 5.0 million stock picks submitted by individual users to the “CAPS” website run by the Motley Fool company (www.caps.fool.com). These picks prove to be surprisingly informative about future stock prices. Shorting stocks with a disproportionate number of negative picks and buying stocks with a disproportionate number…
| Richard Zeckhauser | Christopher Avery
The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns. Christopher Avery, Richard Zeckhauser, July 2011, Paper. "We study the predictive power of approximately 2.5 million stock picks submitted by individual users to the “CAPS” website run by the Motley Fool company (www.caps.fool.com). These picks prove to be surprisingly informative about future stock prices. Indeed, a strategy of shorting stocks with a disproportionate number of negative…