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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The Effect of Cash Transfers and Market Access on Households in Rural Liberia and Malawi

<p>An increasingly popular anti-poverty program in many developing countries is to simply give poor people cash unconditionally.In principle, giving cash can be transferred relatively efficiently to households, with minimal overhead.The relatively recent technological innovation of mobile money marks a huge leap forward in this respect—it is now possible to text money to poor beneficiaries quickly and securely.In Liberia, IPA&nbsp;is evaluating the first large unconditional cash transfer implemented by GiveDirectly.Within this project, a monthly high-frequency phone survey has been running since early 2019.</p>
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Country Liberia
Program Area Health & Nutrition Social Protection

Rapid Assessment of the Preparedness and Response to Covid-19 in Health and Transportation and its Impacts on Rural and Urban Populations

<p>Sierra Leone is a fragile post-conflict country and one of the poorest in the world.The Ebola outbreak in 2014 led to a collapse of the health system, with 21 percent of its health workforce dying and the economy sliding into a prolonged recession.This raises concerns that, out of fear, health workers might abandon workplaces and communities might stay away from clinics, increasing the risk of a fast, undetected COVID-19 transmission.</p>
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Country Sierra Leone
Program Area Health & Nutrition

COVID-19 Knowledge and Social Distancing

<p>Providing health information is a non-pharmaceutical intervention designed to reduce disease transmission and infection risk by encouraging behavior change.But does knowledge change behavior? We test whether coronavirus health knowledge promotes protective risk mitigation behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic across four African countries (Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania).Despite reputations for weak health sectors and low average levels of education, health knowledge of the symptoms and transmission mechanisms was high in all countries in the two months after the virus entered the country.</p>
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Country Ghana Malawi Sierra Leone Tanzania
Program Area Health & Nutrition

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