New Findings Reported from Federal Reserve Board of Governors Describe Advances in COVID-19 (Researchers’ Degrees of Flexibility: Revisiting Covid-19 Policy Evaluations): Coronavirus – COVID-19

2025 JAN 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- A new study on Coronavirus - COVID-19 is now available. According to news reporting out of Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Empirical research involves multiple, seemingly-minor choices that can substantially impact a study’s findings.”

Financial support for this research came from University of California System.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, “While acknowledged, the importance of these ‘degrees of flexibility’ on published estimates is not well understood. We examine the considerable literature focused on the impacts of early COVID-19 policies on social distancing to assess the role of researchers’ degrees of flexibility on the estimated effects of mobility-reducing policies.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We find that estimates reported in previous studies are not robust to minor changes in typically-unexplored dimensions of the degree of flexibility space, and usual robustness tests systematically fail to detect these issues.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Researchers’ Degrees of Flexibility: Revisiting Covid-19 Policy Evaluations. Economic Inquiry, 2024. Economic Inquiry can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Economic Inquiry - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1465-7295)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Joakim A. Weill, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, DC 20551, United States. Additional authors for this research include Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes and Michael R. Springborn.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13273. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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