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

Communication to Promote Healthy Behaviors in Urban Slums in Kenya During COVID-19

<p>Sub-Saharan Africa contains many densely overcrowded and poor urban slums at high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks.In these contexts, sanitation and social distancing measures are near impossible, and COVID-19’s rapid spread is a devastating prospect.To control the pandemic’s spread, the Kenyan Ministry of Health COVID-19 Taskforce has implemented initial prevention and mitigation measures.To inform the Taskforce strategy, this study will deploy rapid phone-based surveys every two weeks on knowledge, attitudes and practices to approximately 7,500 heads of household sampled from existing randomized evaluation cohorts across five urban slums in Nairobi.</p>
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Country Kenya
Program Area Health & Nutrition Peace & Recovery
Type

Randomized Evaluation

Monitoring Survey of G2P Payment Beneficiaries of Social Welfare Programs in Bangladesh

<p>The project’s original goal was twofold: 1) To understand the experience of 3 different groups of G2P transfer beneficiaries—old age allowance, widows and disabled groups—as the direct transfers convert from cash payments to a digitized process of direct deposit into bank accounts.And 2) To partner with A2i (the government body tasked with the digitization process) to understand the beneficiaries'&nbsp;experience and to embed an efficient survey into the organization for future process monitoring.</p>
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Country Bangladesh
Program Area Financial Inclusion Social Protection

The Impact of COVID-19 and Cash Transfers on Market Activity, Livelihoods, and Prices in Rural Markets in Liberia, Malawi, and Rwanda

<p>Researchers measured the impacts of the COVID lockdowns on well-being using monthly phone surveys with households as well as with food vendors in local markets.The surveys were implemented as part of an ongoing evaluation of a large unconditional cash transfer (UCT) program, and data collection started well before the global onset of COVID-19, and has&nbsp;continued throughout the pandemic.The household survey was conducted every 2 months (with half of the sample interviewed each month) and includes questions on food security, income, labor supply, expenditures, transfers and other related outcomes.</p>
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Country Liberia Malawi Rwanda
Program Area Agriculture Social Protection
Type

Quasi-experimental Analysis

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