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Inequalities in children's experiences of home learning during the COVID‐19 lockdown in England
This paper combines novel data on the time use, home‐learning practices and economic circumstances of families with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown with pre‐lockdown data from the UK Time Use Survey to characterise the time use of children and how it changed during lockdown, and to ...
Journal article | Fiscal Studies, Volume 41, Issue 3
The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the UK
In this paper, we estimate the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on mental health in the UK. We use longitudinal micro data for the UK over the period 2009–20 to control for pre‐existing trends in mental health and construct individual‐specific counterfactual predictions for April 2020, ...
Journal article | Fiscal Studies, Volume 41, Issue 3
High‐frequency changes in shopping behaviours, promotions and the measurement of inflation: evidence from the Great Lockdown
We use real‐time scanner data in Great Britain during the COVID‐19 pandemic to investigate the drivers of the inflationary spike at the beginning of lockdown and to quantify the impact of high‐frequency changes in shopping behaviours and promotions on inflation measurement.