Economics Amplified   /     Social Distancing in 2023: The Economic Costs of Lingering COVID Fears

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Many, if not most, citizens of working age have gone back to their jobs in the three-plus years since the start of the pandemic – but not everybody has. Part of the reason is a lingering fear about workplace safety. Chicago Booth’s Steven Davis has new research showing the effect of these fears on the overall economy.

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Duration
1192
Publishing date
2023-07-11 10:00
Link
http://thepie.uchicago.edu/
Contributors
  Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago
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Many, if not most, citizens of working age have gone back to their jobs in the three-plus years since the start of the pandemic – but not everybody has. Part of the reason is a lingering fear about workplace safety. Chicago Booth’s Steven Davis has new research showing the effect of these fears on the overall economy.