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

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Using Phone Surveys to Assess the Effects of COVID-19 on the Delivery of Health and Nutrition Services in Ethiopia

<p>This study assesses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the delivery of health and nutrition services in rural Ethiopia using a phone survey.This three-wave survey will illuminate disruptions to healthcare delivery and the adoption of precautionary health behaviors in 251 sub-districts.We seek to uncover how the work of Health Extension Workers (HEWs) has changed during the pandemic; specifically, the extent to which these frontline health providers have been unable to conduct their usual duties or have needed to redirect efforts from previous services such as antenatal, postnatal care, and nutrition messaging to COVID-related activities.</p>
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Country Ethiopia
Program Area Health & Nutrition
Type

Descriptive / Surveillance

Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Urban Neighborhoods

<p>Without a vaccine, keeping a safe distance is the most effective measure to contain the spread of COVID-19.Reseachers conducted panel phone surveys with 1,400 poor households in two of the African cities with the most COVID-19 infections, Accra and Johannesburg, to analyze how the urban poor are practicing social distancing and personal hygiene.The project studied respondents’ knowledge and perception of COVID-19 and the impact and perceptions of ongoing governments’ policies—all factors that have an effect on people’s intention to cooperate and to make the necessary behavioral changes to curb the spread of COVID-19.</p>
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Country Ghana South Africa
Program Area Health & Nutrition
Type

Descriptive / Surveillance

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
Type

Randomized Evaluation

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