This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...

We leverage within-school variation to estimate the effects of football team performance using a panel of U.S. public high schools in the 2009–2017 academic years. We find no negative effects of athletic success on the academic performance and antisocial behaviour of high school students....