COVID-19 Articles
Our world-leading academics give their insights into the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on economies.
The impact of COVID-19 on Ugandan firms: Evidence from recent surveys and policy actions for supporting private sector recovery | an International Growth Centre Policy Brief
by Anna Vitali, Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Priya Manwaring, Peter Ngategize, John Oryema, Miri Stryjan
April 2021
Inequalities in education, skills, and incomes in the UK: The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic | an Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review Briefing Note
by Richard Blundell, Jonathan Cribb, Sandra McNally, Ross Warwick, Xiaowei Xu
23 March 2021
Rethinking Economics | an International Monetary Fund (IMF) article
by Wendy Carlin and Samuel Bowles
1 March 2021
The impacts of COVID-19 on Health Visiting Services in England: FOI Evidence for the First Wave | University College London brief
by Gabriella Conti and Abigail Dow
21 December 2020
The Geographic Impact of the Pandemic on Household Spending | an Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) Briefing Note
by Imran Rasul, Alex Davenport, Robert Joyce, Kate Ogden, David Phillips, Tom Waters
17 December 2020
Spending and Saving During the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Bank Account Data | an IFS Briefing Note by Imran Rasul, Alex Davenport, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters
29 October 2020
The impacts of COVID-19 on Health Visiting in England | a policy brief by Gabriella Conti and Abigail Dow
25 September 2020
Income Protection Policy During COVID-19: Evidence from Bank Account Data | an IFS Briefing Note by Imran Rasul, Isaac Delestre, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters
10 September 2020
How does lockdown affect firms in developing countries? | an Economics Observatory article by Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer and Camille Semelet
8 September 2020
Who Complies with Social Distancing Measures in the Pandemic? | an Economics Observatory Article by Imran Rasul and Paola Giuliano
20 August 2020
Economic policy under the pandemic: A European perspective | a Vox EU column by John Hassler, Per Krusell, Morten Ravn and Kjetil Storesletten
7 July 2020
Parental involvement in home schooling and developmental play during lockdown | a Centre for Longitudinal Studies brief by Gabriella Conti, Aase Villadsen and Emla Fitzsimons
July 2020
The Effects of Coronavirus on Household Finances and Financial Distress | an IFS Briefing Note by Imran Rasul, Pascale Bourquin, Isaac Delestre, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters
29 June 2020
Compliance with Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Crisis | a Vox EU column by Imran Rasul and Paola Giuliano
18 June 2020
The Geography of the COVID-19 Crisis in England | a Deaton Inequalities Review Paper by Imran Rasul, Alex Davenport, Christine Farquharson, Luke Sibieta and George Stoye
15 June 2020
The Work of Economists During the Crisis: The EEA COVID-19 Research Registry Initiative | a Vox EU column by Imran Rasul and Giovanni Peri
1 June 2020
What Happens After the Lockdown Ends? Lessons from the 2015 Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone | an International Growth Centre (IGC) Blog Post by Imran Rasul
25 May 2020
Public Health Alerts in a Pandemic | a Wheeler Insitute for Business and Development blog by Imran Rasul
8 May 2020
Supporting parents and children in the early years during (and after) the COVID-19 crisis | a Vox EU column by Gabriella Conti
1 May 2020
Startups and employment following the COVID-19 pandemic: A calculator | a Vox EU column by Petr Sedláček and Vincent Sterk
25 April 2020
The coronavirus stimulus package: Quantifying the transfer multiplier | a Vox EU column by Christian Bayer, Benjamin Born, Ralph Luetticke and Gernot Müller
24 April 2020
Differences Between Key Workers | an IFS Briefing Note by Imran Rasul, Christine Farquharson and Luke Sibieta
23 April 2020
COVID-19 is resetting the way we talk about the economy | a Financial Times (FT) article by Wendy Carlin
22 April 2020
From Zika to COVID-19: Can we Learn Lessons Across Pandemics? | an IGC Blog Post by Imran Rasul
15 April 2020
The coming battle for the COVID-19 narrative | a Vox EU column by Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin
10 April 2020
Keeping Key Workers Working: The Role of Pre-School Childcare | an IFS Observation by Imran Rasul, Christine Farquharson and Luke Sibieta
2 April 2020
Key Workers: Key Facts and Questions | an IFS Observation by Imran Rasul, Christine Farquharson and Luke Sibieta
20 March 2020