RAPID: Employer and Employee Behaviors, Experiences, and Perceptions of the Pandemic

该研究项目将收集大量高频纵向数据集，以调查COVID-19对美国各地劳动力市场结果、财务状况和心理健康的影响。 COVID-19正在迅速摧毁美国人的生活。 影响是，并将继续是不均衡的，影响经济和心理脆弱的个人，工作的父母和服务部门的工人跨越空间。 这些影响超出了直接的身体健康影响;学校和工作场所关闭的后果影响劳动力供求，财务健康，心理健康和全球经济。 然而，人们对这一流行病如何影响人们的财务和心理健康知之甚少。研究人员将利用现有平台定期和短时间收集大型数据集，以研究大流行对美国人的影响。 该研究项目的结果将有助于我们了解流行病如何影响弱势群体的心理和经济健康，并为应对流行病影响的政策提供投入。 这不仅有助于缩短预计的衰退和改善美国人的福祉，而且还将使美国成为对抗病毒影响的全球领导者。这项拟议的研究将试图追踪冠状病毒大流行和政策应对对劳动力市场结果的影响，并加强我们对就业，工作条件，财务状况和心理健康之间联系的理解。PI将使用兰德美国生活小组（ALP）平台在短时间内收集纵向调查数据。该项目将利用COVID-19政策应对措施对行业、职业和地点的影响差异：衡量就业/收入损失对个人财务状况和心理健康的影响，调查工作条件如何介导COVID-19对财务状况和心理健康的影响，研究工人日常工作受到干扰的程度，这些干扰如何随时间变化，并研究这些干扰如何影响财务状况和心理健康。该项目的数据收集上级标准调查，因为标准调查无法获得有关雇主和雇员行为的足够信息。 一项纵向调查同时捕捉个人在大流行期间不断变化的劳动力市场体验和看法，对于理解COVID-19与劳动力市场结果、财务状况和心理健康之间的因果关系是必要的。 该项目的结果将有助于我们了解流行病如何影响心理和财务健康，并为应对流行病影响的政策提供投入。 这不仅有助于缩短预计的衰退和改善美国人的福祉，而且还确立了美国在对抗病毒影响方面的全球领导者地位。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research project will collect a large, high-frequency, longitudinal data set to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on labor market outcomes, financial well-being, and mental health across the US. COVID-19 is rapidly devastating the lives of Americans. The impacts are, and will continue to be uneven, affecting financially and psychologically vulnerable individuals, working parents, and service sector workers across space. The impacts extend beyond the direct physical health effects; the consequences of school and work closures affect labor supply and demand, financial health, mental health, and the global economy. Yet, very little is known about how the pandemic is affecting people’s financial as well as mental health. The researchers will use an existing platform to collect large data sets at regular and short intervals to study the effects of the pandemic on Americans. The results of this research project will contribute to our understanding of how pandemics affect mental and financial health of the vulnerable as well as provide inputs into policies to counter the effects of the pandemic. This does not only help shorten the projected recessions and improve the wellbeing of Americans but also establishes the United States as the global leader in countering the effects of the virus.This proposed research will attempt to trace the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the policy responses on labor market outcomes, and enhance our understanding of the links between employment, working conditions, financial well-being, and mental health. The PIs will collect longitudinal survey data over short intervals using the RAND American Life Panel (ALP) platform. The project will use the variation in the impact of the COVID-19 policy response by industry, occupation, and location to: measure the impact of employment/income loss on individuals’ financial well-being and mental health, investigate how working conditions mediate the effect of COVID-19 on financial well-being and mental health, study the extent to which worker routines have been disrupted, how these disruptions change over time, and examine how these disruptions affect financial well-being and mental health. The data collection of this project is superior to standard surveys which do not capture sufficient information about employers and employee behavior. A longitudinal survey that contemporaneously captures individuals’ changing labor market experiences and perceptions during the pandemic is necessary for understanding the causal links among COVDI-19 and labor market outcomes, financial wellbeing, and mental health. The results of this project will contribute to our understanding of how pandemics affect mental and financial health as well as provide inputs into policies to counter the effects of the pandemic. This does not only help shorten the projected recessions and improve the wellbeing of Americans but also establishes the United States as the global leader in countering the effects of the virus.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.