Background: The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is an emergency on a global scale, with huge swathes of the population required to remain indoors for prolonged periods to tackle the virus. In this new context, individuals' health-promoting routines are under great...

Infectious diseases generate spatial dependence or contagion not only between individuals but also between geographical units. New infections in one local district do not just depend on properties of the district, but also on the strength of social ties of its populatio...

We use an accounting framework to evaluate the aggregate impact of a common lockdown policy for 85 countries. We find that poorer countries devote more labor to essential activities that are unaffected by the lockdown, while richer countries can more easily substitute n...

When LSE COVID-19 launched in late April, cases were falling in the UK and the government was thinking about how to begin to ease lockdown. A few days before Christmas, much of the country was again in some degree of lockdown and official cases had reached record levels...

Young people are paying a high price for the efforts to control COVID-19. But, argues Sid Mohasseb (University of Southern California), their experience of the pandemic puts them in a strong position to thrive in its aftermath – if older generations enable them to do so...

Article in the LSE Covid-19 blog discussing the factors that played a part in the regionally uneven spread of Covid-19 mortality across the EU, during the first wave. While every European country was touched by the first wave of COVID-19, the impacts have been geographi...

Lockdown policies are thought to reflect the scientific consensus. But how do we measure that consensus? Daniele Fanelli (LSE) set up a site that enables academics to anonymously give their views on the ‘focused protection’ model endorsed by the ‘Great Barrington Declar...

For many people, abortion and contraception were already hard to obtain. The effect of lockdowns and overstretched health systems has exposed the structural violence that shapes their experiences, write Rishita Nandagiri, Ernestina Coast, and Joe Strong (LSE).

Our reliance on internet technologies increased as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed and with it concerns from parents, teachers, and governments that our digitally-mediated lives might have detrimental effects on children’s mental health and wellbeing. In a contribution...

The young and the old are by far the most harmed by COVID-19 policies, says Paul Dolan (LSE). They tend to have a stronger preference for quality over quantity of life than middle-aged people, who have been the ones making the decisions.