Social, Economic, and Policy Implications
Beyond COVID-19
June 17, 2020
Scientist, scholars, and physicians . . .
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Welcome
Presentations
Discussion & Questions
Agenda
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Alan Gerber
Dean of the Social Science Division, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science
Professor of Economics, of Statistics and Data Science, of Health Policy and Management (Public Health)
Director of the Center for the Study of American Politics
Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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Yale Social Science and COVID-19
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Yale Social Science and COVID-19
Social Scientists working to apply this expertise to:
Understand the spread of infectious disease: Use network models to predict the effects of travel on the spread of the pandemic (Christakis), public health modeling (Zilibotti, Yale public health faculty)
Fight the disease: Psychology for effective messaging for social distancing (Crockett, Huber, Saad Omar in Yale Medical School/School of Public Health), adapting public health response to context (Mobarak, among others)
Covid-19 website: https://covid.yale.edu/research/researchers/social/
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Yale Social Science and COVID-19
Social Scientists working to apply this expertise to:
Measure the social consequences (economic, political, psychological): Developing rapid CPS to provide faster labor market data and improve economic policy (Nordhaus), impact of pandemic and programs on small business in US and Latin America (Humphries)
Reduce the societal and individual harm: massive outreach sharing evidence-based measures to support individual well-being (Santos), Tobin Center efforts to connect volunteers and researchers with government, “safe elections” work
Covid-19 website: https://covid.yale.edu/research/researchers/social/
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Zack Cooper
Associate Professor of Public Health and of Economics
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Gregory Huber
Forst Family Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science; Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Associate Director, Center for the Study of American Politics
Director, ISPS Behavioral Research Lab
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Persuasion in a Polarized Political Environment
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Chima Ndumele
Associate Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health
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Rohini Pande
Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences;
Director, Economic Growth Center
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C19 and the world’s poor
Global poverty will rise for the first time in the 21st century – large projected increases in India (Sumner et al 2020)
A quarter billion will be hungry in 2020 (WFP)
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What we are doing
Evidence generation
Outputs
Gather data
Leverage large scale field studies for policy insights
Analyze data
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Migrant surveys identify policy needs
Lacking work, 7 million migrant workers have returned home since lockdown began
State capacity differences affect policy reach
2 North Indian poorer states ~ 45 million people below the poverty line
And influence well-being
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Mor Awaaz: A phone service to increase digital engagement
10,735
women enrolled
in “Mor Awaaz”
“Push calls” share info on health + gov. benefits
“Pull calls” survey women on policy topics
1/3 of women lack information on how C19 spreads:
Formal providers increase knowledge, family doesn’t
Pull calls: Women access food more easily than cash
adapting
to C19:
survey women on knowledge & access to benefits
Feedback to govt:
TV for mass communication +local health-workers to fill gaps
Ensure food and don’t rely on just cash
Television/newspapers: wide reach (over 80%) and effectively conveys information
Local health workers reach fewer but are effective
Informal networks (family, friends, Whatsapp groups) don’t improve knowledge
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Discussion
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Please direct questions, opportunities, and information to:
Kathy Lynch
University Director,
Corporate Strategy & Engagement
kathleen.lynch@yale.edu
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