[…] behaviour in the face of the health risks and partly because of restrictions introduced by governments. In this paper we show that the scale of the economic impact of the COVID shock in the UK is very different for different people. We find substantial impacts on labour markets, but these impacts do not […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on people’s health and their livelihoods. What started as a health crisis rapidly turned into an economic emergency, with government taking unprecedented action to protect the nation. Despite these efforts, by mid-March 2021 the pandemic had led to 119,000 excess deaths in the UK and in […]
[…] prevent its spread all helped reduce the negative mental health impacts of the pandemic. Public Health Wales commissioned Alma Economics to review the research evidence on the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and the associated government measures on the mental well-being of babies, children, and young people. ‘The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on […]
[…] prevent its spread all helped reduce the negative mental health impacts of the pandemic. Public Health Wales commissioned Alma Economics to review the research evidence on the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and the associated government measures on the mental well-being of babies, children, and young people. ‘The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on […]
[…] of 17,304 UK addresses. The pilot included six experiments testing different fieldwork protocols designed to increase response rates. Only two of the six treatments had an appreciable impact: variations in the contact sequence (inclusion of a pre-notification letter and/or an additional (third) reminder) and the offer of an early bird bonus incentive of £10 […]
This chapter reviews the evidence of the impact on children’s education from the school closures, implemented over the period March-June 2020, as part of the lockdown measures put in place to control the spread of the Covid-19 virus. The sources of information are surveys of the adult population, parents/guardians of school-age children, teachers and […]
[…] including prevalence, risk correlates, and impacts are very scarce. Therefore, it was aimed to provide recent evidence on prevalence and psychiatric correlates of neighbourhood satisfaction and its impact on individual behaviours and life aspects in adolescents in a national and population-based setting.MethodData were retrieved and analysed in the UK Longitudinal Household Survey in 2011–2012. […]
Child malnutrition is a pervasive problem in sub-Saharan Africa that affects individual and national development. This article examines the impact of participation in village savings and loan (VSL) groups, alone and in combination with a rotating labor scheme called Ajuda Mútua (AM), on household and child nutritional outcomes in Nampula Province in Mozambique. It […]
The literature on the effects of public smoking bans on smoking behaviour presents conflicting results and there is limited evidence on their impact on active smoking. This paper evaluates the impact of smoking bans on active smoking using data from the British Household Panel Survey and exploiting the policy experiment provided by the differential […]