Shoshana Vasserman - Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Description: New site
Cities are scrambling to reopen their economy amid the COVID-19 crisis. We all want the same thing: to send people back to work while minimizing infections and deaths. But each reopening strategy balances economic and health outcomes in different ways—and no two cities are exactly the same.
Explore the impacts of different reopening strategies with the tool below. It illustrates our research paper , which predicts the effects of granular policy decisions in specific United States cities. The underlying model is based on anonymized interactions from cell phone data. Learn more below about our data and methodology. The tool shows how policy choices change the number of interactions between specific types of individuals. These interactions affect how many people are able to go to work, and how ma
A policy mix is a combination of specific policy choices across a range of categories that impact how people interact and go to work.
Shoshana Vasserman - Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business