We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on female and male academics' research productivity in social science. The lockdown has caused substantial disruptions to academic activities, requiring people to work from home. How this disruption affects...

This paper proposes a robust two-stage estimation procedure for a general spatial dynamic panel data model in light of the two-stage estimation procedure in Jin et al. (2020), in which we replace the least squares estimation in its first stage by M-estimation. We also provide the justification...