<p>The study uses administrative data for 35 million private-sector jobs in Mexico to investigate the differences between the Great Lockdown (GL) and the Great Recession (GR).Using an event-study design, researchers&nbsp;observe that the GL produced more loss of employment than the GR.The researchers&nbsp;then document five heterogeneous facts.First, men and women were similarly affected by each crisis.Second, both recessions impacted the youngest workers (15 to 29 years old), but the GL also negatively impacted those over 60 years.</p>

<p>Twaweza collected&nbsp;data on citizens’ knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) related to Covid-19&nbsp;through a series of mobile phone surveys of a representative sample of the country’s adult population.The evidence generated will a) provide baseline information on the status of citizens’ knowledge attitudes and practices (behaviors) across Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar, b) improve the understanding of citizens’ knowledge gaps on Covid-19, so as to improve public information campaigns, c) provide data useful in the post Covid-19 to assess the effectiveness of the public health response, and enhance global knowledge on the role of citizen data in combating infectious diseases.</p>

<p>The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on conventional crime and organized crime in Mexico City, Mexico.Researchers&nbsp;use an event study for the intertemproal variation across the 16 districts (municipalities) in Mexico City for 2019 and 2020, utilizing reported crime data from the&nbsp;Mexico City’s Attorney General’s Office (covering&nbsp;domestic violence, burglary, robbery, vehicle-theft, assault-battery, homicides, kidnapping, and extortion).</p>