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Research Projects

We provide here a list of on-going research projects addressing labour market and/or gender implications of Covid-19 in LIC’s. The materials will be updated weekly. Selected research projects from the G2LM|LIC call on COVID-19 are listed below.

G2LM|LIC COVID-19 Projects

  • The Impact of COVID19 Pandemic on the Small Firms in Developing Countries
  • Characterizing Urban Labor Market Effects of COVID and Speeding Recovery through a Job Search Platform
  • Meet Your Future: Job Search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers
  • Migration, Changing Residence Patterns, and Covid-19 in India
  • Gender Differences in the Effects of the ‘Great Lockdown’ on Time Use
  • What Can Online Vacancies Tell Us About Labor Market Conditions in Lower-Income Countries? Evidence from India
  • Gender Effects of COVID-19: Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey
  • Remittances and Coping with COVID‐19
  • Assessing the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19 on Women with Young Children in Egypt
  • Resilience and Recovery: The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the Informal Sector in Uganda
  • Tracking the Value of Time of Informal Sector Workers During and Post-Curfew in Nairobi, Kenya
  • The Effects of Employer Responses to COVID-19 on Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh
  • Assessing the Impact of the Shock on the Most Vulnerable – Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2020
  • Is Heading Home a Dead End? COVID-Induced Migration and Local Labor Market Opportunities in Rural India

Initiative

  • The EEA encourages researchers and institutions to send a short description of research projects that are in progress and involve gathering and analyzing data during the COVID-19 crisis. The EEA registry can be accessed here.

Other On-going Projects 

  • How Online Gig Economy Reshapes the International Labour Market Amid Covid-19 by Yuan Gao
  • Life with Corona by Patricia Justino
  • The Effects of Covid-19 on the Gender Gap in Academic Research Productivity by Tatyana Deryugina
  • Helping Families Help Themselves During Stay-at-Home Orders: Effects of a Mobile Phone Intervention to Address Child Maltreatment and Violent Parent-Child Interactions by Sofia Amaral
  • Staying Close When Apart: the Value of “Information Communication” During Covid-19 Pandemic by Francis Annan
  • The Unequal Effects of Covid-19 on Economists’ Research Productivity by Noriko Amano-Patino
  • Impacts of Covid-19 on Rural households in Bangladesh by Peter Morgan
  • Governments’ Responses to Covid-19 All Around the World by Simon Porcher

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Other Finished Projects 

  • Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Poor Urban Neighbourhoods: the Case of Ghana and South Africa by Isabel Gunther
  • Building Resilience During the Pandemic: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Bolivia by Nicolas Bottan
  • Conflict in Africa during Covid-19: Social Distancing, Food Vulnerability and Welfare Response by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero
  • Understanding the Impact of Covid-19 on Economic Outcomes and Well-being of Rural Communities in Western Uganda by Mahreen Mahmud
  • Economic Policy Responses to a Pandemic: Developing the Covid-19 Economic Stimulus Index by Ceyhun Elgin
  • Assessing Impacts on and Resilience to Food Insecurity amid the Covid-19 Lockdowns in Nigeria by Elena M Martinez
  • Disparate Impacts of Covid-19 Lockdowns in Pakistan Affecting Girls and Rural Residents by Syed Hasan
  • Community Health Care and Covid-19 Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda by Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist 
  • Poverty and Covid-19 in Developing Countries by Olivier Bargain 

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