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Resources for Researchers

This section provides a curated list of different materials of interest for researchers including articles on methods, calls for research proposals, calls for funding opportunities, and datasets. The materials will be updated weekly. 

Considerations for Research during Covid-19 Crisis 

  • A Post-Pandemic Research Agenda by Steven Hill
  • Technology Feature from Springer Nature on Artificial-intelligence tools aim to tame the coronavirus literature by Matthew Hutson
  • A Literature Review of The Economics of COVID‐19 by Abel Brodeur, David Gray, Anik Islam, Suraiya Bhuiyan
  • Implications of COVID-19 Labour Market Shocks for Inequality in Financial Wellbeing by Ferdi Botha, John P. de New, Sonja C. de New, David C. Ribar and Nicolás Salamanca,  Springer
  • The COVID‐19 Pandemic: What Can We Learn From Past Research in Organizations and Management? by Katie Bailey and Dermot Breslin
  • COVID-19 research: Are We Moving Too Fast? While getting new information on COVID-19 is essential, not all research will be critical to managing the risks of the disease, writes Peter Howley
  • Why Maps Matter in Our Response to COVID-19 by Robert Muggah, Founder, SecDev Group and Igarapé Institute

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Call for Research Papers 

List of journals with COVID-19 Special issues: 

  • The Indian Economic Journal: Quarterly calls
  • The CFP List – An Academic Call for Papers Database
  • Call for papers – Call for proposals (Focus: Latin America)
  • COVID-19 and the Social Politics of Crises
  • Journal of Public Economics 
  • American Journal of Health Economics  (Focus: The USA)  
  • Canadian Public Policy  
  • The European Journal of Development Research 
  • European Economic Association     
  • Asian Development Bank Institute “Human Mobility and Transportation Impacts Due to COVID-19”
  • Journal of Family Research – “Families & COVID-19”

More on the previous call for Covid-19 papers

Call for Funding 

  • Google: COVID-19 Research Grants by Google and Harvard Global Health Institute
  • Opportunities for Researchers to Work on the Coronavirus Response : various deadlines provided by University of Oxford
  • Yale Economic Growth Center: List of Research Funding Opportunities for Research on Covid-19  
  • RESEARCHconnect provides Worldwide Funding News Related to Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak 
  • RECOVR Funding Opportunities, a page that lists COVID-19-related funding opportunities, including both IPA-eligible and non-IPA-eligible opportunities, Innovation for Poverty Action
  • Funding for Covid-19 Research & Development Goals for Africa
  • From COVID-19 Response to Equitable Recovery: A Call for Research and Action to Boost Workers’ Economic Security and Mobility 
  • Coronavirus Funding Monitor, a curated list of open funding calls and other support for researchers, non-profit organizations and commercial organizations, specifically for COVID-19 and coronavirus-related research

Datasets 

  • COVID-19: Emerging Gender Data and Why It Matters : political and economic response to COVID-19 and how it is impacting women and girls
  • Resources for COVID-19 by Harvard Dataverse
  • COVID-19 Finance Sector Related Policy Responses : Data on various key variables through the duration of the pandemic, by the World Bank
  • Kenya | COVID-19 Economic Tracker : descriptive statistics on COVID-19, behavioral adaptations, and local economic activity in Kenya 
  • Kenya Life Panel Survey Dataverse : Datasets containing information relating to deworming in Kenya 
  • The COVID-19 Sex-Disaggregated Data Tracker: Gender-wise data on COVID-19 indicators 
  • Outbreak.info : standardizes and aggregates COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 data for easy access
  • The dashboard visualizing harmonized indicators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic provided by the World Bank
  • Epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak, real-time case information provided by Nature
  • Google Dataset Search for Coronavirus

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