In the healthcare industry, quickly recalling defecting products can be instrumental in avoiding potentially harm to patients. Building on upper echelons theory and personality theory, we argue that neurotic CEOs are more vigilant when they face uncertainty, as they do when making recall decisions, leading to faster recalls. We build on a novel, machine-learning based approach to measure the personalities of 110 CEOs of U.S. healthcare firms and find broad support for our theory in analyses.

We measure the digital impact of the Indian COVID-19 lockdown using a survey coupled with browser history data (n=1,094). Gender differences are present for online leisure, production, YouTube, social media and job search – and not for online learning. Working women sacrificed online leisure while maintaining online production. The gender gap is larger among parents. Fathers self-reported significantly larger childcare time increases, yet browser data and partner reports do not support this.

We analyze prices paid in low-income and high-income areas after three hurricanes. Using a triple difference regression, we isolate the percentage change in prices paid by low-income versus high-income areas in affected versus unaffected areas. Compared to high-income areas, low-income areas experience a larger drop in promotions, higher unit percent price increases, a larger decrease in offer sets of low-priced items, and a larger increase in substitution from low-priced to high-priced items.