“…Barrios and Hochberg (2020) suggest that political partisanship contributes to understanding individuals' risk perception during a pandemic, while An, Hou, and Lin (2022) find that firms and households more exposed to an epidemic disease tend to have less access to external financing. Ma, Marshall, Nguyen, Nguyen, and Visaltanachoti (2022) show that market returns and individual stocks improve more when climate disasters occur. Bordalo, Coffman, Gennaioli, and Shleifer (2020) find that risk perception associated with COVID-19 falls sharply with age.…”