News update: The Dutch Government has announced it is spending EUR 8.5 billion to help children catch up on learning they've lost due to COVID-19. The funding will provide programs and tutoring. Our study demonstrated that primary school children's education suffered severely during lockdown, and informed the Dutch Government's decision.
New research led by Liliana Andriano provides a conceptual overview of why and how weather shocks might impact young women’s life course transitions in low-income rural contexts, and explores the model empirically using the case of drought in Malawi: a largely rural and agrarian country that is highly vulnerable to weather shocks, with a large youth population and low ages at first marriage and birth.
In a new article published today on VoxEU.org, Janine Aron and John Muellbauer show that when comparing excess mortality rates, Europe's cumulative excess mortality rate from March to July is 28% lower than the US rate, contradicting some recent public claims.
A new preprint by Richard Breen (Department of Sociology and Nuffield College, Oxford) and John Ermisch (Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Nuffield College, Oxford) has been published on medRxiv: "The Geography of Excess Deaths in England during the Covid-19 pandemic: Longer term impacts and monthly dynamics".
