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Study: the Covid-19 Eviction Moratoriums Helped Reduce Food Insecurity and Mental Stress

Nitzan Tzur Ilan
A new study investigates the impact of 2020 Covid-19 rental eviction moratoria on the wellbeing of US households, finding that eviction moratoria across the...
Covid-19

Governments Were Forced to Restrict Civil Liberties to Deal With Covid-19. More Flexible Constitutions Could Prevent That From Becoming the New Normal

Gabriele Gratton
A new paper argues that exploitation of gaps within democratic constitutions during emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, has the potential to erode democracies...
Covid-19

Challenges to Sound Global Governance for Health

Lawrence O. Gostin
In an excerpt from his new book, Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future, Lawrence O. Gostin examines the challenges and threats to...
Covid-19

The Digital Divide During Epidemics: Who Benefits From New Financial Technologies?

Orkun Saka
A new paper finds that exposure to an epidemic in the current year significantly increases the likelihood that an individual completes financial transactions via...
Big Tech

How Twitter Weakened India’s Information Ecosystem

Prateek Raj
India’s Covid-19 crisis is a reminder that Indian democracy is also in a crisis, partly due to an information ecosystem where facts and criticism...
Covid-19

Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare

Tatyana Deryugina
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research time that...
Covid-19

The Unequal Toll of Covid-19

Neha Deopa
A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done so equally....
News

“Drive and Wave”: In Response to 1998 Police Reform, LAPD Officers Disengaged from Policing

Jana Kasperkevic
A new paper documents how LAPD officers responded to two police reforms—one in 1998 and one in late 2002. It finds that when public...
Covid-19

One Year Into the Pandemic: Who Maintains Social Distancing and Who Doesn’t

Tim Besley
A new study measures factors associated with the adoption of social distancing across America and finds that widespread adoption of social distancing measures is...
Covid-19

Lack of Trust in Doctors Undermines Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy

Fabio da Silva Soares
Recent data from the Financial Trust Index (FTI) reveals that Americans are not as willing to be vaccinated as the government expects. Trusting doctors...
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