Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou and Sarah Smith (University of Bristol) have written an article for the Royal Economic Society, that says the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and intensified inequalities in many areas of our life, including academic life.

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The Unequal Effects of Covid-19 on Economists' Research Productivity, Noriko Amano-Patiño, Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna, 2020.