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

60 Decibels
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

Is Heading Home a Dead End? COVID-Induced Migration and Local Labor Market Opportunities in Rural India

<p>COVID-19-induced migration presents multiple challenges, both direct and indirect, to labor markets.For urban migrants who lose their jobs, alternatives are scarce: since many cannot survive without daily wages, they must journey back to their home villages, where employment options are already in short supply.Once home, migrants face social stigma and limited labor market opportunities.Since internal migration is often geographically concentrated, mass returns also impose large local labor market shocks on sending villages.</p>
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Country India
Program Area Social Protection
Type

Quasi-experimental Analysis

State Fragility and Bureaucratic Responses in India's Coronavirus Crisis

<p>We examine how state capacity and leadership responses influence implementation of the world’s largest COVID-19-induced lockdown and a set of recovery-related outcomes including access to safety net benefits, labor markets, and propagation of misinformation, stigma, and conflict during this volatile period.We focus on the redeployment of bureaucrats and elected officials in Bihar, India, a state of 100+ million people with a history of high poverty and communal conflict.</p>
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Country India
Program Area Governance Peace & Recovery
Type

Quasi-experimental Analysis

House Calls: Understanding and Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Rural India

<p>India’s lockdown could indirectly create health crises.Women of reproductive age and children are particularly vulnerable: pregnant women may find it difficult to access ante- and post-natal care or get to functioning health posts for delivery; vaccine coverage rates are likely to fall acutely; and children with acute non-COVID illnesses may be kept at home instead of taken to health centers.</p>
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Country India
Program Area Health & Nutrition
Type

Randomized Evaluation

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