Socio-economic Impacts of

COVID-19 on US households

This study, developed by a research team from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College and the Indiana University, examines the impacts of COVID-19 on households. This research has a special focus on women and minorities.

We are collecting data using an extensive online survey that includes questions about impacts on finances, food security, physical and mental health, as well as the effects that school and daycare disruptions are having on work and family lives. We hope that our study will inform equitable policy interventions and resilience plans.

Several organizations have been partnering with us by helping us disseminate our survey. They are listed below.

Contact: Dr. Marta Vicarelli <mvicarelli@econs.umass.edu>

PUBLICATIONS:

  • We have completed the data collection in February 2021. We are currently analyzing the data.

  • We have completed the first report with a focus on Vermont LINK to report

  • We have completed a report focus on Massachusetts LINK to report

  • We are now preparing a national report


IRB APPROVAL REVIEW NUMBER:

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst Institutional Review Board

  • Human Subjects Research Protocol #2240 - Approved on September 22, 2020


PRESS RELEASES


PUBLICATIONS

RESEARCH TEAM

  • Principal Investigator: Marta Vicarelli, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy - University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Contact: Dr. Marta Vicarelli <mvicarelli@econs.umass.edu>

  • Ali Alsadadi, Isenberg School of Management - University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

  • Anna Gishin, Isenberg School of Management - University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

  • Aryen Shrestha, Amherst College

  • Elizabeth Murphy, MPA, School of Public Policy - University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

  • Madeline Leue, School of Public Policy - University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

  • Meredith Canada, MSW, MPA, LCSW - Doctoral student at the Indiana University School of Social Work

  • Yash Tyagi, Isenberg School of Management - University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

  • Yu Ya Htut Tin, Departments of Economics and Mathematics- University of Massachusetts (Amherst)


PARTNERS

We are very grateful to the many organizations that are helping us disseminate our survey across the United States.

A particular thanks goes to the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts for their continuous and generous help and support from the very begining of our project development.





Vermont


The North Slope Borough Department of Health & Social Service in Alaska has been supporting the dissemination of our survey among Alaska Natives.


The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in New Mexico is currenty reviewing our study to further distribute it among American Indian Nations.

Wisconsin

Tennessee

The Tri-State Food Bank serves 33 counties in the tri-state area which includes parts of Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois.

Social justice, advocacy and capacity building organization serving and supporting state-based LGBT advocacy organizations in the United States.


Connecticut

Alabama



Arizona