Resiliency and Covid-19

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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

Ethnographic fieldwork and household survey preparation

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 Researcher at the Governance and Local Development Institute

Prisca Jöst

Prisca is a Postdoc based at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the Center on Global Democracy at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in June 2021. Prisca's research broadly focuses on comparative politics and development studies.

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.

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