COVID-19: research work and press pieces
The health crisis unleashed by the global spread of COVID-19 has created innumerable challenges for countries all around the world. All sectors of society and economy have been shaken, from one day to the next: hospitals and the whole health sector, agriculture and food distribution, transport and trade, industrial and energy production, the sporting and cultural sectors, and financial and insurance agents.
This special issue - regularly updated - presents the research and press contributions of PSE economists. The newest Academic articles published in the last few weeks are now available. Since March 2020, our researchers have initiated urgent research into the pandemic (WP, mimeos) and established dedicated projects on the COVID-19. They have also written numerous Policy & Issue Briefs, and made several interventions in French and overseas media.
Last updated: July 9, 2021
Academic Publications
- Gig Workers during the COVID-19 Crisis in France: Financial Precarity and Mental Well-Being - Bénédicte Apouey (PSE, CNRS), Alexandra Roulet (INSEAD), Isabelle Solal (INSEAD) and Mark Stabile (INSEAD)
- COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends - Andrew Clark (PSE, CNRS), Abel Brodeur (University of Ottawa), Sarah Flèche (AMSE) and Nattavudh Powdthavee (Warwick Business School)
- Taking a wellbeing years approach to policy choice - Jan-Emmanuel de Neve (Oxford), Andrew E. Clark (PSE, CNRS), Christian Krekel (LSE), Richard Layard (LSE) and Gus O’donnell (LSE)
- Prevention and mitigation of epidemics: biodiversity conservation and confinement policies - Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron (CNRS, Univ. Bordeaux), Giorgio Fabbri (CNRS, Univ. Grenoble) and Katheline Schubert (PSE, Univ. Paris 1)
- The optimal strategy for prevention and eradication of epidemics - Hippolyte d’Albis (PSE, CNRS) and Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron (Université de Bordeaux)
- Optimal lockdown in altruistic economies - Stefano Bosi (Université Paris-Saclay), Carmen Camacho (PSE, CNRS), David Desmarchelier (Université de Lorraine)
- Online Learning, Teacher Quality and Student Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Andrew Clark (PSE, CNRS), Huifu Nong (Sun Yat-sen University), Hongjia Zhu (Jinan University) and Rong Zhu (Flinders University)
- Special Issue: Environmental Economics of the Coronavirus Pandemic - Co-edited by Katrin Millock (PSE, CNRS)
Mimeos and Working Papers
- Modes of contagion, the spread of the virus and unidentified carriers - Louis-Marie Harpedanne (PSE, Paris 1, Banque de France)
- Anxiety increases the willingness to be exposed to COVID-19 risk among young adults in France - Fabrice Etilé (PSE, INRAE) and Pierre-Yves Geoffard (PSE, CNRS, EHESS)
- When to Release the Lockdown? A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Costs and Benefits - Andrew Clark (PSE, CNRS) et al.
- The Economic Cost of COVID Lockdowns: An Out-of-Equilibrium Analysis - Antoine Mandel (PSE, Paris 1) and Vipin P. Veetil (IIT Madras)
- Excess mortality due to COVID-19 in French municipalities: poverty, housing conditions and labor market - Paul Brandily (PSE), Clément Brébion (CEET, LIRSA), Simon Briole (J-PAL, PSE) and Laura Khoury (NHH)
- Does Holding Elections during a Covid-19 Pandemic Put the Lives of Politicians at Risk? - Laurent Bach (ESSEC, IPP), Clément Malgouyres (IPP, PSE) and Arthur Guillouzouic (IPP, PSE)
- Group Testing with Homophily to Curb Epidemics with Asymptomatic Carriers - Louis-Marie Harpedanne (PSE, Paris 1, Banque de France)
- How Laws Affect the Perception of Norms: Empirical Evidence from the Lockdown - Roberto Galbiati (Sciences Po), Emeric Henry (Sciences Po), Nicolas Jacquemet (PSE, Univ. Paris 1) and Max Lobeck (PSE)
- The Fall in Income Inequality during COVID-19 in Five European Countries - Andrew E. Clark (PSE, CNRS), Conchita D’Ambrosio (Luxembourg Univ.) and Anthony Lepinteur (Luxembourg Univ.)
Policy Briefs, Issue Briefs
- Propagation of shocks in global value chains: the coronavirus case - IPP Policy Brief n°53 : Elie Gerschel, Alejandra Martinez, Isabelle Mejean (March 2020)
- Corona bonds, with or without Germany - WID.world Issue Brief N° 2020/02 : Lucas Chancel (March 2020)
- COVID-19: Europe needs a catastrophe relief plan - VOXeu column : Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Ramon Marimon, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Lucrezia Reichlin, Dirk Schoenmaker, Beatrice Weder di Mauro (March 2020)
- COVID-19, inequality, and gig economy workers - VOXeu column : Mark Stabile, Bénédicte Apouey, Isabelle Solal (April 2020)
- Lockdown exit and control of the Covid-19 epidemic: group tests can be more effective - IPP Policy Brief n°54 : Elie Gerschel, Christian Gollier, Olivier Gossner (April 2020)
- The economics of wage compensation and corona loans: Why and how the state should bear most of the economic cost of the COVID lockdown - VOXeu column : Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Marius Brülhart, Jean-Pierre Danthine, Eric Jondeau, Dominic Rohner (April 2020)
- COVID-19: Speeding up vaccine development - VOXeu column : Pierre-Yves Geoffard (June 2020)
- Assessing the wellbeing impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and three policy types: Suppression, control, and uncontrolled spread - G20 Policy Brief : Matthew Adler, Richard Bradley, Maddalena Ferranna, Marc Fleurbaey, James Hammitt, Alex Voorhoeve (November 2020)
- Introspection, values and life choices at the time of COVID-19 - Projet Datacovid : Olivier Bargain, Marc Fleurbaey (February 2021)
- Closing the COVID Trust Deficit - Project Syndicate / WEF : Karen Macours, Joseph Doyle, Pascaline Dupas (February 2021)
- Just allocation of COVID-19 vaccines - BMJ Global Health 2021 : Anders Herlitz, Zohar Lederman, Jennifer Miller, Marc Fleurbaey, Sridhar Venkatapuram, Caesar Atuire, Lisa Eckenwiler, Nicole Hassoun (February 2021)
- Sleep behaviour before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 6 European countries - 2021 Pandemic Research News (COME-HERE & ANR DYNPANDEMIC projects) : Conchita D’Ambrosio, Samuel Greiff, Luca Ratti, Claus Vögele, Bénédicte Apouey, Andrew Clark (March 2021)
- Information about Gender (in)Equality from 5 European countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic - 2021 Pandemic Research News (COME-HERE & ANR DYNPANDEMIC projects) : Conchita D’Ambrosio, Samuel Greiff, Luca Ratti, Claus Vögele, Bénédicte Apouey, Andrew Clark (March 2021)
- Aiming for zero Covid-19 to ensure economic growth - VOXeu column : Philippe Aghion, Patrick Artus, Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski (March 2021)
- COVID-19, well-being and our working lives - 2021 Pandemic Research News (COME-HERE & ANR DYNPANDEMIC projects) : Conchita D’Ambrosio, Samuel Greiff, Luca Ratti, Claus Vögele, Bénédicte Apouey, Andrew Clark (April 2021)
- French firms through the COVID storm: Evidence from firm-level data - VOXeu column : Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Benjamin Hadjibeyli, Guillaume Roulleau (April 2021)
- Opinions about vaccination from 5 European countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic - 2021 Pandemic Research News (COME-HERE & ANR DYNPANDEMIC projects) : Conchita D’Ambrosio, Samuel Greiff, Luca Ratti, Claus Vögele, Bénédicte Apouey, Andrew Clark (June 2021)
- The Fall in Income Inequality during COVID-19 in 4 European Countries - 2021 Pandemic Research News (COME-HERE & ANR DYNPANDEMIC projects) : Conchita D’Ambrosio, Samuel Greiff, Luca Ratti, Claus Vögele, Bénédicte Apouey, Andrew Clark (June 2021)
- Vaccine reluctance in Luxembourg, France and Germany - 2021 Pandemic Research News (COME-HERE & ANR DYNPANDEMIC projects) : Conchita D’Ambrosio, Samuel Greiff, Luca Ratti, Claus Vögele, Bénédicte Apouey, Andrew Clark, Liyousew Borga, Anna Kornadt, Juan Carlos Caro Seguel, Niccolò Gentile, Anthony Lepinteur, Annika Lutz, Giorgia Menta, Gemma Riera Mallol, Sonia Schifano, Alemayehu Taye, Vincent Vergnat, Remi Yin, Alan Piper, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Xavier Ramos Morilla (Sept. 2021)
Projects in progress on the pandemic
- Development of a “COVID” module in the Medico-economics project - Lise Rochaix (PSE, Paris 1, hospinnomics) and Luc Behaghel (PSE, INRA)
- Incentive mechanisms and the search for a vaccine against COVID-19 - Pierre-Yves Geoffard (PSE, EHESS, CNRS)
- A social distancing model with heterogeneous agents - Francis Bloch (PSE, Paris 1) and Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge University)
- Compensating the dead - Grégory Ponthière (UPEC, PSE), Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University) and Marie-Louise Leroux (UQAM)
- Threshold Ages for the Relation between Lifetime Entropy and Mortality Risk - Grégory Ponthière (UPEC, PSE) and Patrick Meyer (IMT Atlantique)
- Is COVID-19 uninsurable? - Catherine Bobtcheff (PSE, CNRS), David Alary (TSE) and Carole Haritchabalet (E2S UPPA, CATT)
- Time for COVID parties? - Fabrice Etilé (PSE/INRAE) et Pierre-Yves Geoffard (PSE/EHESS)
