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Research note Articles from IPPO

  1. Working Paper: Variation in government responses to COVID-19

    Working Paper: Variation in government responses to COVID-19

    March 27, 2021

    Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Note: this working paper is regularly updated to reflect the changes in data; this is version 11.0 (24.03.21) The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted a wide range of responses from governments around the world. There is a pressing need for up-to-date policy information as these responses proliferate, so that researchers, policymakers and the public can evaluate how best to address COVID-19. The authors introduce the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), providing a systematic way to track government responses to COVID-19 across countries and sub-national jurisdictions over time....

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  2. Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy-nudge intervention

    Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental evidence for a scalable accuracy-nudge intervention

    March 27, 2021

    Pennycook et al, Psychological Science (30.06.20) Across two studies with more than 1,700 US adults recruited online, we present evidence that people share false claims about COVID-19 partly because they simply fail to think sufficiently about whether or not the content is accurate when deciding what to share. In Study 1, participants were far worse at discerning between true and false content when deciding what they would share on social media, relative to when they were asked directly about accuracy. Furthermore, greater cognitive reflection and science knowledge were associated with stronger discernment....

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  3. Nature Scientific Reports: The COVID-19 social media infodemic

    Nature Scientific Reports: The COVID-19 social media infodemic

    March 27, 2021

    Cinelli et al, Nature (06.10.20) We address the diffusion of information about COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the COVID-19 topic and provide a differential assessment on the evolution of the discourse on a global scale for each platform and their users. We fit information spreading with epidemic models characterizing the basic reproduction number

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  4. IFS: Family time use and home learning during the COVID-19 lockdown

    IFS: Family time use and home learning during the COVID-19 lockdown

    March 27, 2021

    Institute for Fiscal Studies (21.09.20) In this report, we present analysis of some of the first data on children’s lives during the lockdown and how home learning during the lockdown worked in practice. Between 29 April and 20 June 2020, we interviewed over 5,500 parents with at least one child entering Reception in September 2020 or a child in school aged 4–15. We asked parents about their employment circumstances, as well as how they and their children spent their time during a weekday. We also asked about the resources (both from their...

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