We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether …

When it comes to mental health, do social protection programs matter more in times of crisis? Using panel data from the … Philippines around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study compares depression rates among beneficiaries of an existing … increased importance of the conditional cash transfer program during the pandemic is that these transfers have larger protective …

Using a unique dataset of establishments in Germany surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates … whether personnel adjustments during the crisis differed between establishments with and without a works council. Our … works council. In contrast, the net employment growth rate over the pandemic and the implementation of short-time work did …

compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased …

This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers' job-specific stresses and their enthusiasm for … the teaching occupation. We use unique data from China that cover the periods before and after the start of the pandemic … and apply difference-in-differences type methods. We find that, among rural young teachers, the pandemic has caused higher …

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate …

Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their … previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental health of women …

This paper examines how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic outcomes of … precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020 and by … prior to the pandemic protected colleges from these negative effects. Enrollment changes were substantial across a wide …

Although enrollment at California's four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the …. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic … dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of enrolled students fell by 11 percent from fall 2019 to fall …

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether … the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so by …