This is according to a new study of “time-use diaries” kept by 766 UK citizens from across the social spectrum during three points in time: the last month of normality, the first lockdown, and the last lockdown in March of this year.
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 4 November, 2021
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 1 November, 2021
Dr. Christopher Rauh and Karin Kimbrough (Chief Economist, LinkedIn) discuss women’s exodus from the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic with Bloomberg’s Lizzy Burden at the Bloomberg Equality Summit.
Keywords: InequalitiesCOVID-19GenderWorkers
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 28 October, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd chaired The Great Vaccine Rollout: Covid-19, Cooperation & Global Public Goods webinar, organised by The Bennett Institute for Public Policy.
Keywords: InternationalVaccinesCOVID-19Policy
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 25 October, 2021
Professor Giancarlo Corsetti will give an online seminar, as part of the IMF's latest Fiscal Monitor series, on Thursday 28th October 14.00-15.00pm (BST).
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 4 October, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd explains how economics can be used to inform public health policy in a new podcast recorded by the London School of Economics.
Keywords: EpidemiologyVaccinesCOVID-19Policy
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 1 October, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has written an introduction for a special edition of National Institute Economic Review, dedicated to Economic Contributions to Infection Control.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 29 September, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has published a new Economics Observatory article which looks at, post COVID-19, how our attitudes have changed towards spending time with people we don't know as opposed to our close family and friends.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 23 September, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was quoted in an article for the daily Russian newspaper Izvestia, that looks at the inequality of the worldwide distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 20 September, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for The Wall Street Journal on how the vaccine roll out and Delta variant are effecting the global recovery.
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 9 September, 2021
Research by Dr Christopher Rauh, a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, has found that those in poorer, less stable occupations have much less access to employer provided sick pay.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 20 August, 2021
In this Economics Observatory article, Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd explains that international cooperation of vaccine rollout is crucial, and asks how well are we doing?
Keywords: InternationalVaccinesCOVID-19Policy
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 17 August, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd explains in the Economics Observatory, vaccines should be valued higher than treatments, because with communicable diseases they reduce the likelihood of people becoming seriously ill.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
In the first weeks of the pandemic, the submission of articles to journals by women, fell dramatically more than their male counterparts.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 9 July, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd's research into Government policy and public behaviour towards COVID-19 restrictions and the vaccine roll out, was quoted in the Telegraph. In the article Managers say some staff are privately leaving app off at all times or deleting it because they fear being forced to into quarantine.
Keywords: RestrictionsSelf-IsolationCOVID-19UK
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 17 June, 2021
A world-wide pandemic could have started at any point in the past century since Spanish Flu circled the globe. However, as Dr Toxvaerd explains; “To a certain extent the world ‘got lucky’, and the world was almost lulled into a false sense of security; it was thought we could contain a virus as well as we did SARS. This turned out to be wrong.”
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd spoke to the BBC World Service about vaccine apathy and the hesitation amongst some members of the public to get vaccinated. Dr. Toxvaerd says that "vaccine hesitancy has always existed, but it has never really come to the fore as much as it has been in recent times" - (the external article is in French).
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 14 June, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has contributed to a piece on vaccines for the first edition of the Economics Observatory's ECO Magazine. In the article Dr. Toxvaerd and Tony Yates look at how vaccine nationalism is driving countries to compete for doses.
Keywords: EpidemiologyNationalismVaccinesCOVID-19
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 8 June, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for National Danish Radio’s Orientation programme about the stigma of naming COVID-19 variants after specific countries. The World Health Organization has said it is not acceptable to refer to corona variants as "The Indian Variant", because it stigmatises individual countries. Dr.
Keywords: EpidemiologyStigmaVariantsCOVID-19
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 7 June, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for the BBC News on the proposed easing of UK restrictions in June. Given the COVID-19 variants and the rising number of new cases, Dr. Toxvaerd gave his thoughts on whether the Government should stick to the hard date of the 21st June for removing all restrictions in the UK.
Keywords: RestrictionsVaccinesCOVID-19UK
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 4 June, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for National Danish Radio’s Orientation programme about the impending easing of restrictions in the U.K. Even before the current restrictions have been lifted, there is already fear of a third wave in the UK.
Economics News | Published on Thursday, 3 June, 2021
The study published in Harvard Data Science Review, focuses on the spread of epidemics and specifically the current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, but the models are applicable to many other disciplines as well.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 27 May, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd gave a plenary talk at The Bridging Disciplinary Divides for Behaviorally Modulated Mathematical Models in Human Epidemiology workshop. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Gies College of Business sponsored workshop was held on 6th-7th May 2021. Watch Dr.
Keywords: Epidemic TheoryGame TheoryModelsCOVID-19
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed by The Telegraph about public confidence in the vaccine roll out and the use of PCR test kits. The article suggests that people are less inclined than a month ago to take up offer of a COVID-19 test.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Monday, 24 May, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed by BBC Scotland News for their COVID-19 Special. The programme consisted of live coverage of the Scottish Government’s Briefing, with reaction and expert analysis. Dr.
Keywords: EpidemiologyRecoveryVaccinesCOVID-19
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Friday, 14 May, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd has written a new article for the Economics Observatory that looks at whether the patents on Covid-19 vaccines should be waived to allow low-income countries to produce their own doses. There has been much debate about this and if such a course of action is likely to have any effect.
Keywords: InequalitiesPatentsVaccinesCOVID-19
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Thursday, 13 May, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and Anthony McDonnell (Center for Global Development), have written a new article for the Economics Observatory that discusses the inequalities of vaccine development. This blog looks at how lower-income countries are often left out of the race to develop and distribute vaccines.
Keywords: DevelopmentInequalitiesVaccinesCOVID-19
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 11 May, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for the At The Margin Podcast about The Economics of Vaccines. Among other topics, Dr.
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd and Tony Yates (independent economist), have written a new article for the Economics Observatory that discusses ‘vaccine nationalism’.
Keywords: NationalismVaccinesCOVID-19Pandemic
Media Mentions & Appearances | Published on Sunday, 2 May, 2021
Dr. Flavio Toxvaerd was interviewed for the Russian newspaper Izvestia about the increase in world wide COVID-19 cases. The article also looks at the catastrophic situation in India and the recent coronavirus outbreaks in other Asian countries.
Economics News | Published on Friday, 30 April, 2021
“We have looked at what happened in lockdown, and there is a widening gender gap in mental health which cannot be explained by what we would regard as normal reasons,” says Dr Christopher Rauh, a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. “The people we studied are working less and hence earning less than usual or even losing their job.”