Resiliency and Covid-19
Project Aims
1) What explains when and how communities implement and enforce policies to mitigate the pandemic's negative effects? When/why does this impact poverty and inequality?
2) How do community factors and individuals' characteristics affect how individuals manage crises?
3) How has the pandemic altered community social ties and authority?
Current Project Stage
Recruitment and Instrument Development
Motivation
This project aims to leverage a rich set of pre-existing data. The timeline below shows the 4 previous surveys that will be instrumental in the project. The LGPI 2019 survey provides a complete picture of what life looked like just before the Covid-19 pandemic. Then a 3-round panel of telephone surveys during the pandemic provide information about the actions and behaviors of individuals and their communities during the pandemic. As part of this project, we will field another face-to-face, household survey to understand how life looks like post-pandemic.
Participating Researchers
Ellen Lust
Founding Director of the Governance and Local Development Institute at Yale University (est. 2013), and then at the University of Gothenburg (est. 2015), and a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg.
Erica Ann Metheney
Statistician, Researcher, and Head of Data Team at the Governance and Local Development Institute
Dave Namusanya
Post Doctoral Reseracher at the Governance and Local Development Institute
Acknowledgements
This project is supported by the Survive, Thrive, or Deprive? Drivers and Outcomes of Resilience During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malawi grant (Vetenskapsrådet – 2021-04651)
The researchers would like to thank Rose Shaber-Twedt for administrative support and Chuwei Chen and Samuel Wakuma for data support.
