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
- IGC and IPA have built a simple survey module that can be used to measure the impact of the crisis on a variety of economic agents e.g., large companies, informal and small businesses, self-employed, workers, and farmers. Using this module by researchers will allow for collecting comparable data across countries.
- 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.
- Conducting Online Surveys in the time of a Pandemic: The Dos and Don’ts by Iffat Zahan and Maria Matin
- A blog article by Markus Goldstein and Florence Kondylis on Impact evaluations in the time of Covid-19
- A blog article on what to do with ongoing field research when a crisis hits by David Mckenzie and Berk Özler
- Practical tips for implementing remote surveys in the time of the great lockdown by Maria Jones, Roshni Khincha, Florence Kondylis, and Lysca Uwamariya
- Kristen Himeleinm Stephanie Eckman, Charles Lau, and David Mckenzie discuss in two blogs different aspects related to mobile phone surveys (Part 1) (Part 2)
- Best practices for conducting phone Surveys summarized by Sarah Kopper and Anja Sautmann
- Gender and COVID-19: Where Can Research Help? By Jemimah Njuki
- Opinion: Without gender data, we leave critical COVID-19 clues on the table by Björn Andersson and Mohammad Naciri
- Introduction: research in the time of Covid-19 by Sören Jeppesena and Jason Miklian
- 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
Call for research papers
List of journals with COVID-19 Special issues:
- Journal of Urban Economics
- Journal of Policy Analysis and Management [US-focused]
- World Development [Deadline May 31]
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics [Deadline September 1]
- Journal of Public Economics
- Economic Policy [Deadline September 30]
- Review of Economics of the Household
- American Journal of Health Economics [US-focused]
- International Review of Economics and Finance [Best before June 21]
- Canadian Public Policy
- The European Journal of Development Research
- Feminist economics [Deadline May 31]
- European Economic Association
- International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy [Deadline 31 July 2020]
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion [Deadline 1 September 2020]
- Journal of Economics and Statistics [Deadline December 2020]
- Journal of Research in Emerging Markets [Deadline 1 October 2020]
- Journal of Population Research
- International Labour Review: Special Issue for COVID-19 and the world of work [Deadline 30 June]
- Review of Behavioral Finance [Deadline 31 August]
- Social Sciences Special Issue “Family, Work and Welfare: A Gender Lens on COVID-19”
Call for funding
- Yale Economic Growth Center provides a list of research funding opportunities for research on Covid-19
- RESEARCHconnect provides Worldwide funding news related to coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
- A funding opportunity, Behavioural, social and economic impacts of the outbreak response from the European Commission (EU)
- RECOVR Funding Opportunities, a page 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
Datasets
- COVID-19 Coronavirus cases worldwide from the EU Open Data Portal
- Coronavirus Government Response Tracker
- The IGC Covid-19 policy tracker records policy interventions addressing the pandemic across the developing world
- An international team of researchers is collecting survey data on how citizens prepare and cope with the spreading coronavirus
- An article by Dimitris Poulopoulos on five other datasets on COVID-19
- ICPSR COVID-19 Data Repository examining the impact of the novel coronavirus global pandemic
- The collection of COVID-19 policy trackers and data: A tracker of trackers: COVID-19 policy responses and data by CoViD-19 Impact Lab
- Asian Development Bank provides the COVID-19 Policy Database for the key economic measures that governments are taking to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Asian countries
- A special page on COVID-19 contains key country policy responses, data, and key impacts from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Track the economic impacts of COVID-19 on people, businesses, and communities across the United States in real-time supported by Harvard University, Brown University, and Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation
- COVID-19 sex-disaggregated data tracker from Global Health 5050
- COVID-19-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices in urban slums in Nairobi, Kenya provided by Harvard Dataverse
- Tracking Economic Consequences and Responses to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone from Sierra Leone COVID-19 Dashboard
- GeoPoll’s study on the impact of COVID-19 across Africa, updated as they continue to survey and track the virus in Africa
- Google released COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports, providing insights into what has changed in response to work from home, shelter in place, and other policies
- The World Bank’s dashboard for understanding COVID-19 through data, providing data from the World Bank and other sources
- COVID-19 Data Collection in the Harvard Dataverse repository.
- Datasets for COVID-19 research from Google Cloud Platform
- Datasets for COVID-19 Pandemic on Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)
- COVID-19 datasets on data.world.
- An interactive platform covering 178 countries provided by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, COVID-19 Stimulus Tracker
- Tracking government responses towards COVID-19 from CoronaNet Research Project
- Tracking all tech startup layoffs — and opt-in lists of employees laid off — since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic.
- Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic provided by Our World in Data
- Covid-19 Economic Tracker, summaries of the key economic responses governments from The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- The geographic distribution of COVID-19 cases worldwide provided by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
