Covid-19: the contribution of demography

Research Projects
To answer a number of the many questions on the impact of the coronavirus on populations and societies in France and across the world, INED has brought together the entire range of its disciplines and resources. This involves coordinating and supporting a number of projects, including an internet platform dedicated to the daily tracking of deaths due to Covid-19, the conducting of new surveys, participation in several international research projects, and wide diffusion of scientific publications. INED began designing and running a number of major, innovative research projects of its own and jointly with other institutions as early as March 2020. The projects encompass all stages in the life cycles and investigate a variety of lockdown-related issues, including home schooling and children’s behavior, housing and living conditions, family solidarity, remote working, the quality and resilience of maternal and neonatal care services, and end-of-life and death in nursing homes.
Publication
The research projects on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have produced a considerable amount of scientific findings. INED has compiled a selection of articles to help you understand certain phenomena better; for example, the impact of the health crisis on life expectancy and excess mortality in France; its repercussions on the health of essential and low-wage workers; the worsening of social inequalities due to the pandemic by family origin and minority “invisibility,” particularly in the département of Seine-Saint-Denis immediately outside Paris; and ethno-racial inequality in the United States in connection with the pandemic.
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Research Projects
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Gender-differentiated effects of telework

Remote working has increased to an unprecedented degree during the Covid-19 crisis. This has helped people protect their health and their jobs, but the specific context in which remote working was set up has also exacerbated what the literature has identified as its potentially negative effects, particularly for women due to unequal sharing of domestic and parenting responsibilities.
Our hypothesis is that while appearing gender neutral, this way of organizing work affects men and women differently. We also posit effect heterogeneity by family situation and remote working mode. The aim of the project is to understand the impact of remote working on gender inequalities in work activity, family organization, overall wellbeing, and mental health.
The project will analyze data from two major surveys representative of France’s general population: “Epidemiology and living conditions” or EpiCoV and “Survey on the experience of work and unemployment during the health crisis” or Tracov.

Funders: l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) et l’Ined.

This project is led at INED by Ariane Pailhe

Online :June 2021