Before revision:  Second, leveraging two US representative survey experiments conducted in early and mid-March 2020 , we document a rapid surge in economic anxieties after the arrival of the coronavirus in the US. Third, to understand how information about the coronavirus affects these anxieties, we measure perceptions about the coronavirus. We find substantial heterogeneity in participants' beliefs about the mortality from and contagiousness of the virus.
After revision:  Second, leveraging two US representative survey experiments conducted in early and mid-March 2020 , we document a rapid surge in economic anxieties after the arrival of the coronavirus . We also document a large dispersion in beliefs about the mortality from and contagiousness of the virus.