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COVID-19 Publications and Working Papers

Below you can find the current COVID-19 research publications and working papers from our academics.

Journal Publications 

 

Preparing for a Pandemic graph

Preparing for a pandemic: Spending dynamics and panic buying during the COVID-19 first wave | Fiscal Studies DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12271

by Martin O’Connell, Aureo de Paula and Kate Smith

May 2021

 

 


 

COVID-19, Childcare Attendance and Child Development in England graph

 

COVID-19, Childcare Attendance and Child Development in England | Issues in English 

by Gabriella Conti and Ella Johnson-Watts

15 April 2021


 

Impact of Lockdown on keyworkers graph

 

Impact of lockdown on keyworkers – Findings from the COVID-19 survey in five UK national longitudinal studies | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

by Gabriella Conti, Constantin-Cristian Topriceanu, Andrew Wong, James C Moon, Alun D Hughes, Nishi Chaturvedi, David Bann, Praveetha Patalay, and Gabriella Captur

11 April 2021


 

Evaluating Access to Health and Care Services During Lockdown graph


Evaluating access to health and care services during lockdown by the COVID-19 survey in five UK national longitudinal studies | BMJ Open

by Gabriella Conti, Constantin-Cristian Topriceanu, Andrew Wong, James C Moon, Alun D Hughes, Nishi Chaturvedi, David Bann, Praveetha Patalay, and Gabriella Captur

24 March 2021

 

 


The Income and Consumption Effects of COVID-19 and the Role of Public Policy.png

The Income and Consumption Effects of COVID‐19 and the Role of Public Policy | Fiscal Studies (vol 41, issue 4, pp.805-827)

by Suphanit Piyapromdee and Peter Spittal

30 November 2020

 


After COVID-19 a Future for the Worlds Children graph

After COVID-19, A Future for the World's Children? | The Lancet Comment (vol 396, issue 10247, pp.298-300)

by the WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commissioners: Imran RasulHelen ClarkAwa Marie Coll-SeckAnshu BanerjeeStefan PetersonSarah L DalglishShanthi AmeratungaDina BalabanovaZulfiqar A BhuttaJohn BorrazzoMariam ClaesonTanya DohertyFadi El-JardaliAsha S GeorgeAngela GichagaLu Gram, David B HipgraveAku KwamieQingyue MengRaúl MercerSunita NarainJesca Nsungwa-SabiitiAdesola O OlumideDavid OsrinTimothy Powell-JacksonKumanan RasanathanPapaarangi ReidJennifer RequejoSarah S RohdeNigel RollinsMagali RomedenneHarshpal Singh SachdevRana SalehYusra R ShawarJeremy ShiffmanJonathon SimonPeter D Sly, Karin StenbergMark TomlinsonRajani R VedAnthony Costello.

2 July 2020


Information Frictions and access to the Paycheck Protection Program

Information Frictions and Access to the Paycheck Protection Program | Journal of Public Economics (vol 190, 104244)

by Gabriel Ulyssea, Christopher Neilson and John Eric Humphries 

July 2020

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Challenges For Labour Market Policy During COVID-19


The Challenges for Labour Market Policy during the COVID‐19 Pandemic | Fiscal Studies (vol 41, issue 2, pp.371-382)

by Monica Costa Dias, Robert JoyceFabien Postel‐Vinay and Xiaowei Xu 

27 June 2020


COVID Inequalities in Lockdown graph

 

COVID-19 and Inequalities | Fiscal Studies (Vol 41, Issue 2, pp.291-319, doi:10.1111/1475-5890.12232)

by Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Robert Joyce and Xiaowei Xu

May 2020


On COVID-19 New Implications of Job Task Requirements and Spouses Occupational Sorting


On COVID-19: New Implications of Job Task Requirements and Spouse's Occupational Sorting | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) COVID Economics (Issue 12, pp. 87–103)

by Suphanit Piyapromdee, Warn N Lekfuangfu, Ponpoje Porapakkarm and Nada Wasi

24 April 2020

 


 

Post-COVID economic recovery: women and children first … or last? | BMJ Open

by Gabriella Conti, Neena Modi, and Mark Hanson

27 January 2021


Building resilient societies after COVID-19: the case for investing in maternal, neonatal, and child health | The Lancet Comment  (vol 5, issue 11, pp.624-p627)

by Gabriella Conti, Chandni Jacob, Despina Briana, Gian Carlo Di Renzo, Neena Modi, Flavia Bustreo, Ariadne Malamitsi-Puchner, and Mark Hanson

1 November 2020


Working Papers

Effects of COVID on Firms in Honduras Graph

The Impact of COVID-19 on Formal Firms in Honduras: Evidence from Monthly Tax Returns | a World Bank Group Working Paper

by Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Camille Semelet

January 2021

 


World Bank graph

The Impact of COVID-19 on Formal Firms Micro Tax Data Simulations across Countries | a World Bank Group Working Paper

by Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Camille Semelet

October 2020

 


Health vs Wealth graph

Health versus Wealth: On the Distributional Effects of Controlling a Pandemic | a Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Working Paper

by Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, Andrew Glover, Jonathan Heathcote, and Dirk Krueger 

21 July 2020


Coronavirus Stimulus Package graph

The Coronavirus Stimulus Package: How large is the transfer multiplier? | a CEPR Working Paper

by Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, Ralph Luetticke and Gernot J. Müller 

June 2020


Who should get vaccinated? Individualized allocation of vaccines over SIR network | a Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
Working Paper

by Toru Kitagawa and Guanyi Wang  

14 December 2020


The Role of Schools in Transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany | a Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) Working Paper

by Kirill Borusyak, Uta Schoenberg and Clara von Bismarck 

20 November 2020

You can view a podcast on this working paper here. 


Risk preferences at the Time of COVID-19: an Experiment with Professional Traders and Students | a Federal Reserve Bank of New York Working Paper

by Antonio Guarino, Marco Angrisani, Marco Cipriani, Ryan Kendall, and Julen Ortiz De Zarate 

May 2020


Could COVID-19 Infect the Consumer Price Index? | an IFS Working Paper (doi:10.1111/1475-5890.12229)

by Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith, Peter Level and Martin O'Connell

May 2020

Ongoing Projects


COVID-19 International Small Business Study | by Gabriel Ulyssea

A collaborative project to understand and help small businesses dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.