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

Understanding the Response to and Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis among Informal Sector Workers in Urban India

<p>In an ongoing randomized control trial, we study the impact of social networks on take-up of a job aggregator service in Delhi, India, with subsequent implications on women and their spouses’ employment outcomes, income, attitudes, and other outcomes.&nbsp;The baseline survey of approximately 1,500 participant households is complete.Our ongoing midline survey (conducted over phone) has now been expanded to also study the response and recovery to the COVID-19 crisis and the current nationwide lockdown among our study sample.</p>
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Country India
Program Area Social Protection
Type

Randomized Evaluation

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Women in the Garment Industry: Evidence from Ethiopia

<p>In a globalized world, pandemics transmit impacts through markets.In this study, researchers&nbsp;document employment changes, coping strategies, and welfare of garment factory workers in Ethiopia’s largest industrial park during the early stages of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic.Researchers&nbsp;field a phone survey of female workers during a two month period in which cases are rapidly rising globally, but not locally.The&nbsp;data suggest significant changes in employment, high levels of migration away from urban areas to rural areas if women are no longer working, and high levels of food insecurity.</p>
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Country Ethiopia
Program Area Health & Nutrition Social Protection
Type

Quasi-experimental Analysis

More than Words: Leaders’ Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic

<p>How do political leader’s words and actions affect people’s behavior? Researchers address this question in the context of Brazil by combining electoral data and geo-localized mobile phone data for more than 60 million devices throughout the entire country.The study&nbsp;finds that after Brazil’s president publicly and emphatically dismisses the risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and advises against isolation, social distancing measures of citizens in pro-government localities reduce relative to those places in which his support is weaker, while pre-event effects are insignificant.The impact is large and robust to different empirical model specifications.</p>
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Country Brazil
Program Area Governance Health & Nutrition
Type

Quasi-experimental Analysis

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