Robert W.
Fairlie
Professor of Economics
University of California, Santa
Cruz
Email:
rfairlie@ucsc.edu
NBER
I am
a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a
member of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). My research
interests include entrepreneurship, education, information technology, racial
and gender inequality, labor economics, and immigration. I received a Ph.D. and
M.A. from Northwestern University and B.A. with honors from Stanford
University. I have held visiting positions at Stanford University, Yale
University, UC Berkeley, and Australian National University.
Recent Research on the Impacts of COVID
on Small Businesses and Workers
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after
Social-Distancing Restrictions, Journal
of Economics and Management Strategy 2020
PDF
(First version SIEPR
WP, NBER WP)
Selected
Media: WashPost#1,
WP#2,
NYTimes#1,
NYT#2,
WSJ#1,
WSJ#2,
PBS, CBS,
CNBC#1,
CNBC#2,
USA
Today, Bloomberg,
BBC, Forbes,
Vox, National
Geographic, KAZU,
KTVU,
CNBC#3
Featured
Interview: JEMS
•
Early Evidence of the Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment (with Ken
Couch and Huanan Xu) Journal of Public
Economics, 2020
PDF
(First version SIEPR
WP, NBER WP)
•
Gender and the COVID-19 Labor Market Downturn (with Ken Couch and Huanan Xu)
•
Did the $660 Billion Paycheck Protection Program and $220 Billion Economic
Injury Disaster Loan Program Get Disbursed to Minority Communities in the Early
Stages of COVID-19? (with Frank Fossen)
Selected
Media: The
Conversation
•
Sales Losses in the First Quarter of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from
California Administrative Data (with Frank Fossen)
Selected
Media: WSJ
Congressional Testimony
U.S.
House of Representatives, Feb. 2021
Written:
PDF
Hearing
Video: Video
(55 mins in)
California
State Assembly, Feb. 2021
Written:
Testimony
Hearing
Video: Video
(57 mins in)
Senate Bills
•
New
Senate Bill by Senators Schumer, Booker, Harris, and others citing research
•
New
bills signed by Governor Gavin Newsome citing research
Recent Estimates for Impacts on Small
Business Owner Activity
(These are updates to estimates reported
in PDF)
Excel Version of Figure and
Tables
Additional Information