The COVID-19 crisis has triggered widespread and poorly understood economic, political and  social effects worldwide. For example, widespread lockdowns, which have been implemented as a public health measure to slow the pandemic, have had significant consequences in many other realms of life, such as households’ economic well-being, food security, schooling and mental health.

In partnership with the DevLab, this project team contributed to a comprehensive analysis of microdata to shed light on the political and governance effects of the pandemic across the developing world. The team incorporated a standardized COVID-19 module across multiple existing research projects focused on impact evaluation and consolidated and analyzed data to synthesize key findings for policymakers on the effects of the pandemic.      

Timing

Summer 2021 – Spring 2022 

Team Outputs

Policy briefs; blogs; data visualizations, academic papers; public-use data files

This Team in the News

Three Students Honored as Faculty Scholars

Interdisciplinary Researchers Discuss Faculty-Student Research

Meet the Members of the 2021-2022 Bass Connections Student Advisory Council

Senior Spotlight: Reflections from the Class of 2023

This project team was originally part of the Education & Human Development theme of Bass Connections, which ended in 2022. 

Image: Recent Graduates of Cambodia’s FETP Use Their Frontline Training to Respond to COVID-19, by CDC Global, licensed under CC BY 2.0