RECOVR Research Projects

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This page lists research projects that are being developed by IPA and others. Our goal is to document active studies taking place on COVID-19’s socio-economic impacts—and results, as they come in—in order to inform researchers and decision-makers working to mitigate the crisis. As this is a public good, the hub contains both IPA and non-IPA studies. Inclusion criteria for the hub can be found here, and new projects and questionnaires can be submitted here.

Contributing Partners

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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
BRAC Institute of Governance & Development
Center for Effective Global Action
Center for Global Development
Global Poverty Research Lab
IDinsight
International Growth Centre
Yale Research Initiative on Innovative & Scale

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Small Enterprise Emergency Financial Assistance (SEEFA)

<p>While a majority of workers in low-income countries are own-account, a sizable share are wage employed in informal firms.Does the logic of firm assistance and job retention programs in the formal sector apply to firms and wage employees in the informal sector? Is firm survival sufficient to avoid job destruction or must assistance take the form of implicit or explicit pass-through to workers? This project in Ghana uses randomized income transfers to firms and workers to test implementation modalities for small firm emergency assistance, measuring effects on firm survival, job retention, wages, and firm owner and worker income smoothing.</p>
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Country Ghana
Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development
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Randomized Evaluation

COVID-19 Lockdown, Institutional Responsiveness, and Household Well-being: Evidence from India

<p>The countrywide lockdown has been the dominant strategy of the Indian government to arrest the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic.While the state and central governments should be focusing on formulating broad policies, the local government (Panchayats) must be used to help as outposts of both tracking the spread of the pandemic as well as designing mechanisms and strategies to cope with the economic fallout of the pandemic.</p>
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Country India
Program Area Health & Nutrition
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Descriptive / Surveillance

Distance Assessment of Early Childhood Development at Home

<p>School closures resulting from lockdowns&nbsp;to limit the spread of COVID-19 threaten to result in learning loss for students, particularly young children&nbsp;in vulnerable contexts.In order to evaluate the short-term impacts of distance learning efforts, researchers need to be able to effectively assess student learning outcomes remotely.In this project, researchers are working with Ministries of Education in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and El Salvador to design and validate a distance assessment to be administered remotely with preschool children aged 4-5 years.</p>
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Country Colombia Costa Rica El Salvador Panama Peru
Program Area Education
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