Data Resources on the COVID-19 Pandemic

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• Johns Hopkins University

  Public Health and Medicine

  The data repository for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Visual Dashboard operated by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CSSE).

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  Why is this resource interesting?

  The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 data "links data from the Robert Koch Institute, the World Health Organization, and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Furthermore, official statistics from the Robert Koch Institute are downward biased on weekends, as some local administrations only report their case numbers on workdays. The data then enter the official statistics on Monday and Tuesday, yielding an upward bias of the statistics on new infections. We find that the data from the Johns Hopkins University (2020) are more robust to these biases." (Hartl, et al. 2020),

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  Types: Chart Dataset Map Tables Last updated at: 03/15/2022

  Keywords: COVID-19 cross-country infection public health statistics tracking

  COVID-19 , cross-country , infection , public health , statistics , tracking Chart , Dataset , Map , Tables 1647339332

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  Related IZA Discussion Papers using this Data Resource 22

  • #13411

    A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19

    Abel Brodeur, David M. Gray, Anik Islam, Suraiya Jabeen Bhuiyan
  • #13388

    Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

    Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia, Samuel Safford
  • #14884

    COVID-19 and the Forces behind Social Unrest

    Mario Lackner, Uwe Sunde, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
  • #13467

    COVID-19, Race, and Redlining

    Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
  • #13231

    Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic: Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?

    Claudia L. Persico, Kathryn R. Johnson
  • #13137

    Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

    Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur
  • #13649

    Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19

    Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron
  • #14170

    Home Ownership and Home Equity Promote Entrepreneurial Activity

    Wolter Hassink, Matteo Millone, Remco Mocking, Benedikt Vogt
  • #13165

    Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

    Yun Qiu, Xi Chen, Wei Shi
  • #13695

    Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

    Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Neeraj Kaushal, Ashley N. Muchow
  • #13293

    Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19

    Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Bertrand Verheyden
  • #13227

    Occupational Exposure to Contagion and the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe

    Piotr Lewandowski
  • #13255

    On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution

    Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Taylor Wright
  • #13094

    Projecting the Spread of COVID-19 for Germany

    Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter, Klaus Wälde
  • #13427

    Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic

    Cevat Giray Aksoy, Michael Ganslmeier, Panu Poutvaara
  • #13516

    Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market

    Gordon Betcherman, Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Ioanna Pantelaiou, Mauro Testaverde, Giannis Tzimas
  • #14710

    Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?

    Xun Li, Weizheng Lai, Qianqian Wan, Xi Chen
  • #14984

    School Closures and Effective In-Person Learning during COVID-19: When, Where, and for Whom

    Andre Kurmann, Etienne Lalé
  • #13151

    Should Contact Bans Be Lifted in Germany? A Quantitative Prediction of Its Effects

    Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter, Constantin Weiser, Klaus Wälde
  • #13862

    The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

    Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur, Stephen Weymouth
  • #13351

    The Political Scar of Epidemics

    Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Orkun Saka
  • #15209

    What COVID-19 May Leave Behind: Technology-Related Job Postings in Canada

    Alejandra Bellatin, Gabriela Galassi

• Google's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports

  Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19

  Google COVID-19 community mobility reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19.

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  Why is this resource interesting?

  "The Google COVID-19 mobility reports aggregate anonymized sets of data from users’ mobile device location history. The mobility index measures how visits to, or length of stay at, different types of location change over time compared to a baseline period corresponding to January 3 - February 6, 2020. There are six location categories: (i) retail and recreation, (ii) grocery and pharmacy, (iii) parks (public gardens, dog parks, beaches, etc.), (iv) transit stations (public transport hubs such as subway, bus, train stations), (v) workplaces and (vi) residential areas.
  Human mobility is tracked by Google daily and in a consistent manner across 131 countries. For a subset of countries, the information is provided at sub-national level." (IZA DP 13205)

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  Types: Chart Dataset Statistics Tables Last updated at: 01/11/2021

  Keywords: COVID-19 cross-country ecomonic sectors economic development Google health behaviour mobility tracking

  COVID-19 , cross-country , ecomonic sectors , economic development , Google , health behaviour , mobility , tracking Chart , Dataset , Statistics , Tables 1610371107

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  Related IZA Discussion Papers using this Data Resource 29

  • #14903

    A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries

    Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey J. O'Connor, Chiara Peroni, Stephanié Rossouw
  • #13265

    An Economic Model of the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Importance of Testing and Age-Specific Policies

    Luiz Brotherhood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, Michèle Tertilt
  • #13690

    Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence From Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns

    Christian Krekel, Sarah Swanke, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt
  • #13297

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries

    Olivier B. Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
  • #14095

    Coronavirus and Social Distancing: Do Non-Pharmaceutical-Interventions Work (at Least) in the Short Run?

    David Bardey, Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Alexis Gravel
  • #14682

    COVID-19 Mobility Policies Impacts: How Credible Are Difference-in-Differences Estimates?

    Joakim A. Weill, Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes, Michael R. Springborn
  • #13778

    Determinants of the Community Mobility during the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Government Regulations and Information

    Silvia Mendolia, Olena Stavrunova, Oleg Yerokhin
  • #13480

    Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences

    Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh
  • #13376

    Dynamics of Social Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada

    Mutlu Yuksel, Yigit Aydede, Francisko Begolli
  • #13649

    Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19

    Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron
  • #14883

    Fiscal Multipliers in the COVID-19 Recession

    Alan Auerbach, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Peter B. McCrory, Daniel Murphy
  • #14967

    Gimme Shelter. Social Distancing and Income Support in Times of Pandemic

    Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier B. Bargain, Tanguy Bernard
  • #13237

    Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis

    Lena Hensvik, Thomas Le Barbanchon, Roland Rathelot
  • #13293

    Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19

    Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Bertrand Verheyden
  • #14229

    More than Words: Leaders' Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic

    Nicolas Ajzenman, Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata
  • #14980

    Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

    Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J. O'Connor
  • #13255

    On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution

    Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, Taylor Wright
  • #13516

    Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market

    Gordon Betcherman, Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Ioanna Pantelaiou, Mauro Testaverde, Giannis Tzimas
  • #13790

    School Re-Openings after Summer Breaks in Germany Did Not Increase SARS-CoV-2 Cases

    Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Lipfert, Nico Pestel
  • #14844

    Schools under Mandatory Testing Can Mitigate the Spread of SARS-CoV-2

    Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Diederichs, Reyn van Ewijk, Nico Pestel
  • #15111

    Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes

    Ho Fai Chan, Zhiming Cheng, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo R. Paloyo, Massimiliano Tani, Damon Proulx, David Savage, Benno Torgler
  • #13234

    Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust

    Abel Brodeur, Idaliya Grigoryeva, Lamis Kattan
  • #13651

    The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam

    Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh
  • #13862

    The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

    Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur, Stephen Weymouth
  • #13316

    Timing is Everything when Fighting a Pandemic: COVID-19 Mortality in Spain

    Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Noelia Rivera Garrido, Almudena Sevilla
  • #13205

    Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19

    Olivier B. Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
  • #15171

    Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data

    Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey J. O'Connor, Chiara Peroni, Stephanié Rossouw
  • #13440

    Urban Density and COVID-19

    Felipe Carozzi, Sandro Provenzano, Sefi Roth
  • #14119

    Weather, Psychological Wellbeing and Mobility during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Ashley Burdett, Apostolos Davillas, Ben Etheridge

• Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT)

  Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19

  The University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government systematically collects information on policy stringency taken by governments to tackle the pandemic since February 2020. OxCGRT collects information on government policy responses across eight dimensions, namely: (i) school closures; (ii) workplace closures; (iii) public event cancellations; (iv) gathering restrictions; (v) public transportation closures; (vi) stay-at-home orders; (vii) restrictions on internal movement; and (viii) international travel bans. These dimensions are then used to calculate response indexes to COVID-19. Each index is rescaled to get a score between 0 and 100 (100 representing the highest degree of strictness/restriction).

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  Why is this resource interesting?

  "This tracker implemented by the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government systematically collects information on the measures taken by governments to tackle the pandemic since February 2020 . OxCGRT is based on publicly avail-able information on 13 indicators of government response (policies such as school closures, ban son public gatherings or travel, etc., and financial indicators such as fiscal or monetary measures). Each indicator is re-scaled to get a score between 0 and 100 (100 representing the highest degree of strictness/restriction)." (IZA DP 13205)

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  Types: Chart Dataset Map Open access Tables Last updated at: 09/30/2020

  Keywords: COVID-19 cross-country economic policy government measure intervention lockdown political policy politics protective measure public health public health measure tracking

  COVID-19 , cross-country , economic policy , government measure , intervention , lockdown , political policy , politics , protective measure , public health , public health measure , tracking Chart , Dataset , Map , Open access , Tables 1601461760

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  Related IZA Discussion Papers using this Data Resource 24

  • #14903

    A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries

    Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey J. O'Connor, Chiara Peroni, Stephanié Rossouw
  • #13690

    Are Happier People More Compliant? Global Evidence From Three Large-Scale Surveys During Covid-19 Lockdowns

    Christian Krekel, Sarah Swanke, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt
  • #14095

    Coronavirus and Social Distancing: Do Non-Pharmaceutical-Interventions Work (at Least) in the Short Run?

    David Bardey, Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Alexis Gravel
  • #14116

    COVID-19 Severity: A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths

    Daniel L. Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter
  • #13778

    Determinants of the Community Mobility during the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Government Regulations and Information

    Silvia Mendolia, Olena Stavrunova, Oleg Yerokhin
  • #13480

    Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences

    Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh
  • #13664

    Exponential Growth Bias in the Prediction of COVID-19 Spread and Economic Expectation

    Ritwik Banerjee, Priyama Majumdar
  • #13649

    Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19

    Wim Naudé, Martin Cameron
  • #14967

    Gimme Shelter. Social Distancing and Income Support in Times of Pandemic

    Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier B. Bargain, Tanguy Bernard
  • #15294

    Hiding the Elephant: The Tragedy of COVID Policy and Its Economist Apologists

    Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters
  • #13927

    Interventions with Positive Side-Effects: COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Infectious Diseases in Europe

    Micha Kaiser, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, David E. Bloom
  • #13158

    Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations

    Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Bettina M. Siflinger, Christian Zimpelmann
  • #13293

    Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19

    Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Bertrand Verheyden
  • #14980

    Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

    Francesco Sarracino, Kelsey J. O'Connor
  • #13227

    Occupational Exposure to Contagion and the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe

    Piotr Lewandowski
  • #13427

    Public Attention and Policy Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic

    Cevat Giray Aksoy, Michael Ganslmeier, Panu Poutvaara
  • #13516

    Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs: The Short-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market

    Gordon Betcherman, Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Ioanna Pantelaiou, Mauro Testaverde, Giannis Tzimas
  • #13651

    The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam

    Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh
  • #14269

    The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19: Early Evidence for a Sample of Enterprises from Southern Europe

    Allan Webster, Sangeeta Khorana, Francesco Pastore
  • #13351

    The Political Scar of Epidemics

    Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Orkun Saka
  • #13205

    Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19

    Olivier B. Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
  • #15171

    Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data

    Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey J. O'Connor, Chiara Peroni, Stephanié Rossouw
  • #13366

    Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries

    Michèle Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Julian C. Jamison, Nicholas W. Papageorge
  • #15209

    What COVID-19 May Leave Behind: Technology-Related Job Postings in Canada

    Alejandra Bellatin, Gabriela Galassi

• WageIndicator Survey of Living and Working in Coronavirus Times

  Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19

  The WageIndicator Foundation has launched a continuous global online survey ‘Living and Working in Corona Times’. The purpose of the survey is to discover what makes the Coronavirus lockdown easier (or tougher) for citizens across 110 countries, and to gauge the effect of COVID-19 on jobs, lives and states of mind.

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  Why is this resource interesting?

  WageIndicator shows coronavirus-induced changes in living and working conditions in 110 countries. The survey reveals, from day to day, the consequences the large majority of the working population of the world experiences on the basis of answers on the following questions in the Corona survey:
  
  - Is your work affected by the corona crisis?
  - Are precautionary measures taken at the workplace?
  - Do you have to work from home?
  - Has your workload increased/decreased?
  - Have you lost your job/work/assignments?
  

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  Types: (Household) Survey Dataset Last updated at: 06/09/2020

  Keywords: attitudes concern COVID-19 cross-country economic development employment expectations health behaviour social contacts social distancing uncertainty unemployment working conditions

  attitudes , concern , COVID-19 , cross-country , economic development , employment , expectations , health behaviour , social contacts , social distancing , uncertainty , unemployment , working conditions (Household) Survey , Dataset 1591715387

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

  Open Data and Surveys Related to COVID-19

  The downloadable data file is updated daily and contains the latest available public data on COVID-19. Each row/entry contains the number of new cases reported per day and per country. You may use the data in line with ECDC’s copyright policy.

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  Why is this resource interesting?

  ECDC data provide the total number of diagnosed COVID.19 infections, the number of deceased patience and the growth rate of COVID-19 around the globe. ECDC examines reports from health authorities worldwide in a systematic way in order to produce the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths every day.

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  Types: Catalog Dataset Open access Statistics Last updated at: 09/03/2020

  Keywords: COVID-19 cross-country death Europe infection public health tracking

  COVID-19 , cross-country , death , Europe , infection , public health , tracking Catalog , Dataset , Open access , Statistics 1599128825

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  Related IZA Discussion Papers using this Data Resource 10

  • #13683

    Are COVID Fatalities in the US Higher Than in the EU, and If So, Why?

    Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Shoshana Grossbard
  • #13297

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and COVID-19 in Developing Countries

    Olivier B. Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov
  • #13092

    Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration

    Guglielmo Briscese, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, Mirco Tonin
  • #14095

    Coronavirus and Social Distancing: Do Non-Pharmaceutical-Interventions Work (at Least) in the Short Run?

    David Bardey, Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Alexis Gravel
  • #13164

    How Do We Think the COVID-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?

    Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens, Eline Moens, Philippe Sterkens, Johannes Weytjens
  • #13452

    Intergenerational Residence Patterns and COVID-19 Fatalities in the EU and the US

    Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Shoshana Grossbard
  • #13114

    Intergenerational Ties and Case Fatality Rates: A Cross-Country Analysis

    Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn
  • #13293

    Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19

    Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Bertrand Verheyden
  • #13351

    The Political Scar of Epidemics

    Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Orkun Saka
  • #13205

    Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19

    Olivier B. Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov

A number of national and international research projects are currently underway that empirically record the economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection is wide and ranges from snapshots of surveys with self-selected samples, representative surveys, longitudinal studies, experiments, etc..
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Please contact the IDSC of IZA for any suggestions of further content at idsc@iza.org.